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Test 5 · Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home

★★★ Mum signs «Read 3 pages, good» every night for a month. The teacher still doesn't know Ollie finds «ough» words hard. Why not?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum signs, teacher · What happens: read, not know, find · To what, where: 3 pages, Ollie, words

This is test 5 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: ★★★ Mum signs «Read 3 pages, good» every night for a month.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 signs	nsubj
3	★	★	PUNCT	_	2 ★	punct
4	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 signs	compound
5	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 Read	punct
7	Read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 signs	acl:relcl
8	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 pages	nummod
9	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 Read	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 good	punct
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pages	amod
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 good	punct
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Read	obl:unmarked
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 month	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 month	det
17	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Read	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 signs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read in a quote	infinitive	Mum signs not said here	3 pages			month; night		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent page=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: The teacher still doesn't know Ollie finds «ough» words hard.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 finds	nsubj
3	still	still	ADV	_	6 know	advmod
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 know	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 know	advmod
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 teacher	acl:relcl
7	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 know	obj
8	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 ough	punct
10	ough	ough	ADV	_	12 words	advmod
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 ough	punct
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 finds	obj
13	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 finds	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 finds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	the teacher not said here	Ollie			still		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer ollie=Stimulus
2	find	present	the teacher	words				hard property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic

Sentence 3: Why not?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Why	advmod
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Three pages a night is far too few to be seen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pages	nummod
2	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 few	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 few	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 few	cop
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 few	advmod
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 few	advmod
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	11 seen	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 seen	aux:pass
11	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 few	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Three pages					far, few property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive · passive	Three pages not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The teacher only reads the records in the summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reads	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 reads	advmod
4	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 records	det
6	records	record	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reads	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 summer	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 summer	det
9	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reads	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	the teacher	the records			summer		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The notes never say what went well or what was hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 notes	det
2	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 say	advmod
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	ccomp
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 went	advmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 hard	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 hard	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hard	cop
11	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 went	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	present	the notes						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	past						well property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past						hard property	tree rules

Option 4

Ollie must have hidden the reading record

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hidden	nsubj:pass
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hidden	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 hidden	aux
4	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 record	det
6	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 record	compound
7	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hidden	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	must · perfect · passive		Ollie					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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