Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Adult life / Bad news, protests and helping others / t8

Test 8 · ★ · Bad news, protests and helping others

Dad turns the radio off: «Enough doom for one day.» What is he doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad · What happens: turn off, do · To what, where: radio

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 32 «Bad news, protests and helping others» 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: Dad turns the radio off: «Enough doom for one day.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 radio	det
4	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	2 turns	compound:prt
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 doom	punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 doom	punct
8	Enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 doom	amod
9	doom	doom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 day	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 day	nummod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 doom	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turns	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 turns	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn off	present	Dad	the radio				Enough doom for one day obl	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent radio=Patient

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 is he doing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Telling you the radio is broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 broken	csubj:pass
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Telling	iobj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 radio	det
4	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 broken	aux:pass
6	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund		the radio	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient radio=Topic
2	break	present · passive	Telling						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Taking a break from heavy news

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 break	det
3	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 news	case
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 news	amod
6	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	gerund		a break		heavy news			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent break=Theme from news=Initial_Location

Option 3

Trying to save the radio's batteries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 save	mark
3	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Trying	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 radio	det
5	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 batteries	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 radio	case
7	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	gerund							vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	save not said to happen	to-infinitive		the radio's batteries					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Theme

Option 4

Getting ready to go to bed at noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Getting	xcomp
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Getting	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 bed	case
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 noon	case
8	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund						ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	go	to-infinitive				bed	noon		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/t8/