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Test 6 · ★ · Prediction: what happens next

★★★ A story has two clues: «Tom kept his hands in his pockets all day» and «Mum's best vase was missing from the shelf». Which prediction uses BOTH clues?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, story, Tom, best vase, prediction · What happens: ★, have, keep, miss, use · To what, where: two clues, hands, pockets, shelf, clues · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 19 «Prediction: what happens next» 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: ★★★ A story has two clues: «Tom kept his hands in his pockets all day» and «Mum's best vase was missing from the shelf».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ★	ccomp
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 clues	nummod
8	clues	clue	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 has	obj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 kept	punct
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 kept	punct
11	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 kept	nsubj
12	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 clues	parataxis
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hands	nmod:poss
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 kept	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 pockets	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 pockets	nmod:poss
17	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 kept	obl
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kept	obl:unmarked
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 kept	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 missing	cc
22	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 missing	punct
23	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 vase	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 Mum	case
25	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 vase	amod
26	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 missing	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 missing	aux
28	missing	miss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 kept	conj
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 shelf	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 shelf	det
31	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 missing	obl
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 missing	punct
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ★	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	★	present	★						tree rules
2	have	present	a story	two clues					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Patient
3	keep in a quote	past	Tom	Tom's hands		Tom's pockets	day		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in pocket=Location
4	miss in a quote	past · progressive	Mum's best vase			the shelf			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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: Which prediction uses BOTH clues?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 prediction	det
2	prediction	prediction	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uses	nsubj
3	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	BOTH	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 clues	det
5	clues	clue	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 uses	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 uses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	which prediction	both clues					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The vase will come back by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 vase	det
2	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 itself	case
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	future	the vase					by vase	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by itself=Location

Option 2

Tom is cold, so he will put his gloves on tomorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cold	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cold	cop
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 put	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 put	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 put	aux
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cold	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 gloves	nmod:poss
10	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 put	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 tomorrow	case
12	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Tom					cold property	tree rules
2	put	future	Tom	Tom's gloves			tomorrow		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent glove=Goal

Option 3

Mum will buy a new shelf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buy	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 buy	aux
3	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shelf	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shelf	amod
6	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	future	Mum	a new shelf					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelf=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tom broke the vase and is hiding a cut or the pieces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 vase	det
4	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broke	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hiding	cc
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hiding	aux
7	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 broke	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cut	det
9	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hiding	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 pieces	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pieces	det
12	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cut	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	Tom	the vase					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vase=Patient
2	hide	present · progressive	Tom not said here	a cut or the pieces					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Patient

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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