Test 2 · Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home

«bro audiobooks are cheating, u didn't read nothing». Fair?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bro audiobooks, u · What happens: cheat, not read · To what, where: nothing

This is test 2 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: «bro audiobooks are cheating, u didn't read nothing».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 cheating	punct
2	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 audiobooks	compound
3	audiobooks	audiobook	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cheating	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cheating	aux
5	cheating	cheat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 read	punct
7	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 read	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 read	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 read	advmod
10	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cheating	parataxis
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 read	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 read	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cheating	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheat in a quote	present · progressive	bro audiobooks						vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not read in a quote	past · do-support	u	nothing					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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: Fair?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Fair	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, they build words and stories, though print practice matters too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 build	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 build	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 build	nsubj
4	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 build	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stories	cc
7	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 words	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 matters	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 matters	mark
10	print	print	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 practice	compound
11	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 matters	nsubj
12	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 build	conj
13	too	too	ADV	_	12 matters	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present	they	words and stories					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset word=Product
2	matter	present	print practice						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Yes, only reading out loud to a teacher at school really counts as reading

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 reading	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 reading	advmod
4	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 counts	csubj
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 reading	compound:prt
6	loud	loud	ADV	_	4 reading	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 teacher	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 teacher	det
9	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reading	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 school	case
11	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reading	obl
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 counts	advmod
13	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 reading	case
15	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 counts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read out	gerund			a teacher	school		loud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to teacher=Recipient
2	count	present	reading					as reading	vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as reading=Attribute

Option 3

Yes, listening to a book teaches you nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 teaches	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 listening	punct
3	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 teaches	csubj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 book	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 book	det
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 listening	obl
7	teaches	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 teaches	iobj
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 teaches	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	gerund						to a book	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to book=Theme
2	teach speech: other	present	listening	nothing	you	all			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient nothing=Topic

Option 4

No, audiobooks are better than print in every way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 better	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	audiobooks	audiobook	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 better	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 better	cop
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 print	case
7	print	print	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 better	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 print	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	audiobooks					than print in every way; good 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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