Test 2 · Our street: who parked where and who won what
Mum, on the doorstep: «Ambulance at the Lawsons' at six, hope it's not the baby.» What's the best thing for the street to do?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mum, Ambulance, best thing · What happens: hope, not be, be, do · To what, where: baby · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 of lesson 41 «Our street: who parked where and who won what» 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, on the doorstep: «Ambulance at the Lawsons' at six, hope it's not the baby.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hope | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 doorstep | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 doorstep | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 doorstep | det |
| 5 | doorstep | doorstep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mum | conj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ambulance | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ambulance | punct |
| 8 | Ambulance | ambulance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mum | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Lawsons | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Lawsons | det |
| 11 | Lawsons | Lawson | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 Ambulance | nmod |
| 12 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 11 Lawsons | case |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 six | case |
| 14 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 Ambulance | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mum | punct |
| 16 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 baby | nsubj |
| 18 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 baby | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 baby | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 baby | det |
| 21 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hope | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 hope | punct |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 hope | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope in a quote | present | Mum and the doorstep and Ambulance at the Lawsons at six | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | Ambulance | the baby | 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's the best thing for the street to do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 street | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 street | det |
| 8 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thing | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thing | acl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the best thing for the street | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | the best thing for the street not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Phone the hospital to find out more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hospital | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hospital | det |
| 3 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hospital | acl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 find | compound:prt |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 find | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | to-infinitive | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Offer help and wait for the family's news
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Offer | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 wait | cc |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Offer | conj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 news | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 family | det |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 news | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 family | case |
| 9 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wait | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | imperative | you not said here | help | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent help=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wait | infinitive | you not said here | for the family's news | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Knock and ask what is wrong with the baby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Knock | knock | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 ask | cc |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Knock | conj |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 wrong | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wrong | cop |
| 6 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ask | ccomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 baby | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 baby | det |
| 9 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wrong | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | imperative | you not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | with the baby; wrong property | tree rules |
Option 4
Text round that the baby is very ill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ill | nsubj |
| 2 | round | round | ADP | _ | 5 baby | case |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 2 round | fixed |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 baby | det |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Text | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ill | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 ill | advmod |
| 8 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Text round the baby | ill property | tree rules |
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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