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Test 10 · Dances of the world and dancing at parties

Tom wants the floor to swallow him while his uncle dances. What is a kinder way to see it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tom, floor, uncle · What happens: want, swallow, dance, be, see · To what, where: floor, Tom, kinder way, way

This is test 10 of lesson 30 «Dances of the world and dancing at parties» of the arts 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: Tom wants the floor to swallow him while his uncle dances.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 floor	det
4	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 swallow	mark
6	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 swallow	obj
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 dances	mark
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 uncle	nmod:poss
10	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dances	nsubj
11	dances	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 swallow	advcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Tom	the floor					tree rules
2	swallow not said to happen	to-infinitive	the floor not said here	Tom					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	dance	present	Tom's uncle						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 a kinder way to see it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 way	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	kinder	kind	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a kinder way					tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive		way					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Everyone laughs at Tom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 laughs	nsubj
2	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 Tom	case
4	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 laughs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	Everyone			Tom			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

His uncle is having fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 uncle	nmod:poss
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 having	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 having	aux
4	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 having	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · progressive	His uncle	fun					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient

Option 3

His uncle is breaking the rules of the wedding and should stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 uncle	nmod:poss
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 breaking	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 breaking	aux
4	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rules	det
6	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 breaking	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 wedding	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wedding	det
9	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rules	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stop	cc
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 stop	aux
12	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 breaking	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present · progressive	His uncle	the rules of the wedding					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Patient
2	stop	should	His uncle not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	rule		the wedding						nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

His uncle should be sent home so the young people can dance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 uncle	nmod:poss
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 sent	aux:pass
5	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 sent	advmod
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 dance	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 people	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dance	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 dance	aux
12	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sent	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	should · passive		His uncle				home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	dance	can	the young people						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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