Test 3 · ★ · Fronted adverbials
★★ «Carefully Ali carried the eggs.» What is the only thing missing?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, only thing · What happens: carry, be, miss · To what, where: eggs
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 29 «Fronted adverbials» 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: ★★ «Carefully Ali carried the eggs.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 carried | punct |
| 4 | Carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 6 carried | advmod |
| 5 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | nsubj |
| 6 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eggs | det |
| 8 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 carried | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 carried | punct |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 carried | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry in a quote | past | ★ | the eggs | carefully property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=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: What is the only thing missing?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | missing | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 thing | acl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the only thing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | miss | gerund | the only thing not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
A comma after «Carefully»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 comma | det |
| 2 | comma | comma | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 Carefully | mark |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 Carefully | punct |
| 5 | Carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 2 comma | acl |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 comma | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The subject
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 subject | det |
| 2 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A verb
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 verb | det |
| 2 | verb | verb | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A full stop after «Ali»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 stop | det |
| 2 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stop | amod |
| 3 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 Ali | case |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ali | punct |
| 6 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stop | nmod |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 stop | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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