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Test 3 · Sounds and letters: how phonics starts

Ollie said «Ollie!» for /m/ and the whole class laughed. What is the wise move for the teacher?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ollie, whole class, wise move · What happens: say, laugh, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 of lesson 1 «Sounds and letters: how phonics starts» of the English 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: Ollie said «Ollie!» for /m/ and the whole class laughed.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 Ollie	punct
4	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	parataxis
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Ollie	punct
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 Ollie	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 m	case
8	/	/	PUNCT	_	7 for	punct
9	m	M	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
10	/	/	PUNCT	_	15 laughed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 laughed	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 class	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 class	amod
14	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 laughed	nsubj
15	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ollie					for m	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	laugh	past	the whole class						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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 is the wise move for the teacher?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 move	det
4	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 move	amod
5	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 teacher	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 teacher	det
8	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 move	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the wise move for the teacher						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Make Ollie copy the letter m fifty times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obj
3	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Make	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 m	det
5	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 m	compound
6	m	M	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 copy	obj
7	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 times	nummod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 copy	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	Ollie					tree rules
2	copy	infinitive	Ollie not said here	the letter m			time		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent m=Theme

Option 2

Tell Ollie he is not ready for school yet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	iobj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ready	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ready	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 ready	advmod
6	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 school	case
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ready	obl
9	yet	yet	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		Ollie		yet		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ollie=Recipient
2	not is	present	Ollie					for school; ready property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Play «I spy» with sounds until hearing first sounds clicks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 spy	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 spy	nsubj
4	spy	spy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Play	conj
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Play	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 sounds	case
7	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Play	obl
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 sounds	mark
9	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sounds	nsubj
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 hearing	advmod
11	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Play	advcl
12	clicks	click	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sounds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	imperative	you not said here					with sounds	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sound=Theme
2	spy in a quote	present	I						vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	sound	present	hearing	clicks					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location click=Theme

Option 4

Laugh too, so Ollie learns to stop guessing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	too	too	ADV	_	1 Laugh	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 learns	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 learns	advmod
5	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 learns	nsubj
6	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Laugh	parataxis
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stop	mark
8	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 learns	xcomp
9	guessing	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	learn	present	Ollie						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stop	to-infinitive	Ollie not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	guess	gerund	Ollie not said here						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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