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Test 6 · Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check

«just read me the story, why do I hafta tap fingers to spell frog». Why tap?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, I · What happens: read, do, finger, spell · To what, where: story, me, frog

This is test 6 of lesson 2 «Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check» 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: «just read me the story, why do I hafta tap fingers to spell frog».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 read	punct
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 read	advmod
3	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 read	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 do	advmod
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 read	conj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 fingers	nsubj
11	hafta	hafta	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fingers	compound
12	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fingers	compound
13	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 do	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 spell	mark
15	spell	spell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 fingers	acl
16	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spell	obj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 fingers	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 read	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the story	me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient story=Topic
2	do in a quote	present	you not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	finger in a quote		I						tree rules
4	spell in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	frog					vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent frog=Theme

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: Why tap?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

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

Each tap is one sound, so you know how many to write

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 tap	det
2	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sound	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sound	cop
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sound	nummod
5	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 know	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
9	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sound	conj
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 many	advmod
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 know	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 write	mark
13	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 many	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	each tap	one sound					tree rules
2	know	present	you	many					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer many=Stimulus
3	write	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Tapping makes the hand warm and ready to write

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tapping	tapping	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hand	det
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ready	cc
7	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 warm	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 write	mark
9	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ready	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Tapping	the hand				warm property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hand=Product
2	write	to-infinitive	the hand not said here						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Tapping counts the letters, and frog has five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tapping	tapping	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 counts	nsubj
2	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 letters	det
4	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 counts	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 has	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 has	cc
7	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 has	nsubj
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 counts	conj
9	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	Tapping	the letters					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme
2	have	present	frog	five					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent five=Patient

Option 4

It's a game with no link to spelling at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 game	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 game	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 game	det
4	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 link	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 link	det
7	link	link	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 game	nmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 spelling	case
9	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 link	nmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 game	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a game		all		with no link to spelling	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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