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Test 9 · Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home

In a cartoon, a boy reads one huge book overnight and wakes up a genius. What is true in real life?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: read, wake up, be · To what, where: one huge book, cartoon, genius, real life

This is test 9 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: In a cartoon, a boy reads one huge book overnight and wakes up a genius.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reads	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reads	nsubj
7	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 book	nummod
9	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 book	amod
10	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reads	obj
11	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	7 reads	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wakes	cc
13	wakes	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 reads	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 wakes	compound:prt
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 genius	det
16	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wakes	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 reads	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	a boy	one huge book		a cartoon		overnight property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic
2	wake up	present	a boy not said here	a genius					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent genius=Patient

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: What is true in real life?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 life	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 life	amod
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only reading at school makes you clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 reading	advmod
2	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 makes	csubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 school	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reading	obl
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 makes	obj
7	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	gerund				school			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at school=Value
2	make	present	reading	you				clever property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product

Option 2

Reading at night doesn't count at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 count	csubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 night	case
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Reading	obl
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 count	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 count	advmod
6	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 count	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	gerund					night		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not count	present · do-support	Reading			all			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Readers grow slowly, a little every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Readers	reader	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 grow	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 grow	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grow	obl:unmarked
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Readers	a little			day	slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

One hard book makes you a genius overnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 book	nummod
2	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 book	amod
3	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 makes	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 genius	det
7	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	xcomp
8	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	4 makes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	One hard book	you				overnight property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product

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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