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Test 3 · Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report

★★ Ruby says the koala report is heaps boring. Mum: «What did you learn?» What is a good thing to do with a dull report?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, koala report, you · What happens: say, be, learn, do · To what, where: Mum, good thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 of lesson 23 «Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report» 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: ★★ Ruby says the koala report is heaps boring.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
2	★	★	PUNCT	_	1 ★	punct
3	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	flat
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 report	det
6	koala	koala	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 report	compound
7	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boring	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 boring	cop
9	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 boring	nsubj
10	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	ccomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	★						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the koala report					boring property	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: Mum: «What did you learn?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 learn	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 learn	punct
4	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 learn	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 learn	aux
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 learn	nsubj
7	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mum	parataxis
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 learn	punct
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 learn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn in a quote	past · do-support	you	Mum					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

Sentence 3: What is a good thing to do with a dull report?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 thing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 report	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 report	det
10	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 report	amod
11	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a good thing					tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive						with a dull report	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Decide that boring texts can't teach you anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 teach	mark
3	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 texts	amod
4	texts	text	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 teach	nsubj
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 teach	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 teach	advmod
7	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Decide	advcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 teach	iobj
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 teach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	imperative	you not said here						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not teach speech: other	can	boring texts	anything	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient anything=Topic

Option 2

Only look at the pictures

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 look	advmod
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 pictures	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pictures	det
5	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here					at the pictures	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at picture=Theme

Option 3

Stop reading at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Stop	xcomp
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 reading	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	read	gerund	you not said here						vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at once=Value

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Find one surprising fact

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 fact	nummod
3	surprising	surprising	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fact	amod
4	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	imperative	you not said here	one surprising fact					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Topic

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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