Test 9 · Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report
«Yesterday I visited Gran.» Change it to third person.
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: I, you · What happens: visit, change · To what, where: Gran, it
This is test 9 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: «Yesterday I visited Gran.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 visited | punct |
| 2 | Yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 visited | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 visited | nsubj |
| 4 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 visited | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 visited | punct |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 visited | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit in a quote | past | I | Gran | yesterday | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gran=Co-Agent |
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: Change it to third person.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Change | change | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Change | obj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 person | case |
| 4 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 person | amod |
| 5 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Change | obl |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Change | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | imperative | you not said here | it | to third person | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
The options
Option 1
Visit Gran yesterday.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Visit | visit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Visit | obj |
| 3 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Visit | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Visit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | imperative | you not said here | Gran | yesterday | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gran=Co-Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yesterday Jo visited Gran.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yesterday | Yesterday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Jo | compound |
| 2 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 visited | nsubj |
| 3 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 visited | obj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 visited | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | past | Yesterday Jo | Gran | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gran=Co-Agent |
Option 3
Yesterday I visited my gran.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 visited | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 visited | nsubj |
| 3 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 gran | nmod:poss |
| 5 | gran | gran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 visited | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 visited | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | past | I | my gran | yesterday | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gran=Co-Agent |
Option 4
Tomorrow I'll visit Gran.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 visit | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 visit | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 visit | aux |
| 4 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 visit | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 visit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | future | I | Gran | tomorrow | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gran=Co-Agent |
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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