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Test 10 · Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home

★★★ Tyler reads gaming guides, Freya reads comics and Nadia listens to audiobooks. Which one is NOT practising reading printed words?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, Freya, Nadia, one · What happens: read, listen, not practise, print · To what, where: gaming guides, comics, printed words

This is test 10 of lesson 16 «Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home» 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: ★★★ Tyler reads gaming guides, Freya reads comics and Nadia listens to audiobooks.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reads	nsubj
4	Tyler	Tyler	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 reads	nsubj
5	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	gaming	gaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 guides	compound
7	guides	guide	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 reads	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 reads	punct
9	Freya	Freya	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 reads	nsubj
10	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reads	conj
11	comics	comic	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 reads	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 listens	cc
13	Nadia	Nadia	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 listens	nsubj
14	listens	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 reads	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 audiobooks	case
16	audiobooks	audiobook	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 listens	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 reads	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	★ ★ ★	gaming guides					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guide=Topic
2	read	present	Freya	comics					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comic=Topic
3	listen	present	Nadia					to audiobooks	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to audiobook=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: Which one is NOT practising reading printed words?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 practising	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 practising	aux
4	NOT	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 practising	advmod
5	practising	practise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 practising	xcomp
7	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 words	amod
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 reading	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 practising	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not practise	present · progressive	which one						tree rules
2	read	gerund	which one not said here	printed words					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	print	participle							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

None of them, all three are reading print

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	8 reading	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 None	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 three	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 three	det
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 None	parataxis
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 reading	aux
8	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	print	print	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reading	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present · progressive	None	print					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent print=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nadia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nadia	Nadia	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Tyler

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tyler	Tyler	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Freya

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freya	Freya	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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