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Test 11 · Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home

Kids swap books and talk about them. Why does that help?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kids, that · What happens: swap, talk, help · To what, where: books

This is test 11 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: Kids swap books and talk about them.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 swap	nsubj
2	swap	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 swap	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 talk	cc
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 swap	conj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talk	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 swap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	present	Kids	books					vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme
2	talk	infinitive	Kids not said here					about Kids = kid	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about they=Topic

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: Why does that help?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 help	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 help	nsubj
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present · do-support	that						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

It gets them out of doing their homework

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gets	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 doing	mark
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 doing	mark
6	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 gets	advcl
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 homework	nmod:poss
8	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	It	them = they					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	do	gerund		their homework					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Eventuality

Option 2

It only helps the teacher save money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 helps	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 helps	advmod
3	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 teacher	det
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helps	obj
6	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 helps	xcomp
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	It	the teacher					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent teacher=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	save	infinitive	the teacher not said here	money					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It makes reading more fun and helps them choose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 makes	xcomp
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 fun	amod
5	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reading	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 helps	cc
7	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 helps	obj
9	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 helps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It						tree rules
2	read	gerund		more fun					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Topic
3	help	present		them = they					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	choose	infinitive	them = they not said here						vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It means they don't need to read the books themselves, only hear about them

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 need	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 need	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 need	advmod
6	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 read	mark
8	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 need	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 books	det
10	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 read	obj
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 books	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hear	punct
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 hear	advmod
14	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	conj
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not need	present · do-support	they						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	read not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	the books books					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic
4	hear	infinitive						about books = book	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about they=Stimulus

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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