Test 9 · Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing
Year 1 performs "Twinkle, twinkle" with actions. Why do actions help?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: actions · What happens: help
This is test 9 of lesson 47 «Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing» 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: Year 1 performs "Twinkle, twinkle" with actions.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 performs | compound |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Year | flat |
| 3 | performs | perform | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Twinkle | compound |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 performs | punct |
| 5 | Twinkle | twinkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 twinkle | punct |
| 7 | twinkle | twinkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Twinkle | conj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 twinkle | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 actions | case |
| 10 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 twinkle | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Twinkle | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Why do actions help?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 help | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 3 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 help | nsubj |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present · do-support | actions | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
They help memory and show meaning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 help | nsubj |
| 2 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 help | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 meaning | cc |
| 5 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 meaning | compound |
| 6 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 memory | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | They | memory and show meaning | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Beneficiary |
Option 2
They mean you can skip the words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 mean | nsubj |
| 2 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 skip | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 skip | aux |
| 5 | skip | skip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 mean | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 words | det |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 skip | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | They | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | skip | can | you | the words | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Agent |
Option 3
They turn the rhyme into a limerick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rhyme | det |
| 4 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turn | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 limerick | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 limerick | det |
| 7 | limerick | limerick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | They | the rhyme | a limerick | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent rhyme=Theme into limerick=Trajectory |
Option 4
They let the class rush through it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 let | nsubj |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 class | det |
| 4 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rush | nsubj |
| 5 | rush | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 let | xcomp |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rush | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | They | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | rush | present | the class | it | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Trajectory |
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