Test 11 · ★ · Tense consistency and verb forms

★★★ Fill in for the right tense: "While I ___ my homework, the lights went out."

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, I, lights · What happens: fill in, homework, go out

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 31 «Tense consistency and verb forms» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Fill	nsubj
4	Fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	4 Fill	compound:prt
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 tense	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tense	det
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tense	amod
9	tense	tense	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Fill	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
12	While	while	SCONJ	_	18 homework	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 homework	nsubj
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 I	punct
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 I	punct
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 homework	punct
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 homework	nmod:poss
18	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 homework	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lights	det
21	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Fill	conj
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 went	compound:prt
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Fill	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Fill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	fill in	infinitive	★ ★ ★	for the right tense	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	homework in a quote		I		tree rules
3	go out in a quote	past	the lights		vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

will do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 do	aux
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	future							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

have done

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 have	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	do	participle	you not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

am doing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 doing	aux
2	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · progressive							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

was doing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 doing	aux
2	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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