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Test 7 · ★★ · Going to the doctor and the chemist

A Canadian boy sees his friend collapse and stop breathing. What should he do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Canadian boy, friend, boy · What happens: see, collapse, stop, breathe, do · To what, where: friend

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 20 «Going to the doctor and the chemist» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: A Canadian boy sees his friend collapse and stop breathing.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sees	nsubj
4	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friend	nmod:poss
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sees	obj
7	collapse	collapse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sees	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stop	cc
9	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 collapse	conj
10	breathing	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stop	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sees	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	a Canadian boy	boy's friend					tree rules
2	collapse	infinitive	boy's friend not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	stop	infinitive	boy's friend not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	breathe	gerund	boy's friend not said here						vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: What should he do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	boy						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Go to the pharmacy to buy medicine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 pharmacy	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pharmacy	det
4	pharmacy	pharmacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 buy	mark
6	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Go	advcl
7	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here			the pharmacy			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pharmacy=Initial_Location
2	buy	to-infinitive	you not said here	medicine					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Call 911 and shout for a grown-up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	911	911	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Call	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 shout	cc
4	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Call	conj
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 up	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 up	det
7	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 up	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 up	punct
9	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shout	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here	911					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 911=Recipient
2	shout speech: express	infinitive	you not said here					for a grown up	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for up=Recipient
3	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Book an appointment with the doctor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 appointment	det
3	appointment	appointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Book	appos
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 doctor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 doctor	det
6	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 appointment	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Wait quietly until his friend wakes up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	1 Wait	advmod
3	until	until	SCONJ	_	6 wakes	mark
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 friend	nmod:poss
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wakes	nsubj
6	wakes	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 wakes	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here					quietly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wake up	present	his friend						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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