Test 4 · ★ · Fronted adverbials
★★★ «As soon as the bell rang, Max grabbed his bag and ran out of the door.» How long is the fronted adverbial?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bell, ★ · What happens: ring, grab, run, front, be · To what, where: bag, door, fronted adverbial
This is test 4 · ★ 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: ★★★ «As soon as the bell rang, Max grabbed his bag and ran out of the door.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 grabbed | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 grabbed | punct |
| 5 | As | as | ADV | _ | 6 soon | advmod |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 grabbed | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 rang | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bell | det |
| 9 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rang | nsubj |
| 10 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 grabbed | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rang | punct |
| 12 | Max | Max | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 grabbed | nsubj |
| 13 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bag | nmod:poss |
| 15 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grabbed | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ran | cc |
| 17 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 grabbed | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 door | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 door | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 door | det |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ran | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 grabbed | punct |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 grabbed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring in a quote | past | the bell | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grab in a quote | past | ★ | Max's bag | soon property | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | |||
| 3 | run in a quote | past | ★ not said here | the door | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out door=Trajectory |
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: How long is the fronted adverbial?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 adverbial | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 adverbial | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 adverbial | det |
| 5 | fronted | front | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 adverbial | amod |
| 6 | adverbial | adverbial | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 adverbial | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | front | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the fronted adverbial | long property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Three words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 words | nummod |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Six words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 words | nummod |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Five words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 words | nummod |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
One word
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 word | nummod |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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