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Test 9 · Screens, diets, sofas and late nights

Mum at midnight, scrolling: "Floods, war, prices up again..." What would most help her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: scroll, help · To what, where: her

This is test 9 of lesson 29 «Screens, diets, sofas and late nights» 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: Mum at midnight, scrolling: "Floods, war, prices up again..."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 midnight	case
3	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mum	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 scrolling	punct
5	scrolling	scroll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Mum	conj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Floods	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Floods	punct
8	Floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mum	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 war	punct
10	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Floods	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 prices	punct
12	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 Floods	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 prices	compound:prt
14	again	again	ADV	_	12 prices	advmod
15	...	...	PUNCT	_	8 Floods	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Floods	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scroll	gerund							tree rules

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 would most help her?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 help	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 help	nsubj
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 help	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	would			her = she				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Sharing every story with the family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharing	share	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 story	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sharing	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 family	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 family	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sharing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	gerund		every story				with the family	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Putting the phone down and getting some sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 phone	det
3	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Putting	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	1 Putting	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 getting	cc
6	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Putting	conj
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 sleep	det
8	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 getting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put down	gerund		the phone					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent phone=Goal
2	get	gerund		some sleep					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sleep=Stimulus

Option 3

Reading more news until she feels better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 feels	csubj
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 news	amod
3	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Reading	obj
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	6 feels	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 feels	nsubj
6	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 feels	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	gerund		more news					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Topic
2	feel	present	she					good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Turning up the brightness of the screen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Turning	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brightness	det
4	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turning	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 screen	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 screen	det
7	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brightness	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn up	gerund		the brightness of the screen					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brightness=Theme

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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