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Test 7 · Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home

Sam: «Grandad still reads to me, I'm 9, so cringe.» Is it babyish?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grandad, I, cringe · What happens: read, be · To what, where: Sam, me, 9

This is test 7 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: Sam: «Grandad still reads to me, I'm 9, so cringe.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 reads	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 reads	punct
4	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 reads	nsubj
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 reads	advmod
6	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Sam	acl:relcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 reads	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 9	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 9	nsubj
11	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 9	cop
12	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Sam	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cringe	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 cringe	advmod
15	cringe	cringe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sam	appos
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 cringe	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 cringe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read in a quote	present	Grandad	Sam not said here	me		still		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sam=Topic to i=Recipient
2	is a in a quote	present	I	9					tree rules

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: Is it babyish?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 babyish	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 babyish	nsubj
3	babyish	babyish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 babyish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	cringe					babyish property	tree rules

The options

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

No, it helps even children who can read alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 helps	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 helps	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 helps	nsubj
4	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 children	advmod
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 helps	obl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 read	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 read	aux
9	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 children	acl:relcl
10	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 read	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	it	children					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	read	can	children					alone property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, reading aloud should stop once you can read

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 stop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reading	punct
3	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stop	csubj
4	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	3 reading	advmod
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stop	aux
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	once	once	SCONJ	_	10 read	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 read	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 read	aux
10	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stop	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	gerund						aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stop	should	reading						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	read	can	you						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, it slows your own reading right down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 slows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slows	nsubj
4	slows	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 reading	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reading	amod
7	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slows	obj
8	right	right	ADV	_	9 down	advmod
9	down	down	ADV	_	4 slows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow	present	it	your own reading				down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent reading=Patient
2	read		your						nom reading «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

No, but only if the book is a baby book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	11 book	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 book	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 book	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 book	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 book	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 book	det
7	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 book	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 book	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 book	det
10	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 book	compound
11	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the book	a baby book					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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