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Test 4 · Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell

A cartoon presenter turns his back and reads ten slides aloud, and everyone cheers. What would really happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon presenter, everyone · What happens: turn, read, cheer, happen · To what, where: back, ten slides

This is test 4 of lesson 48 «Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell» 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: A cartoon presenter turns his back and reads ten slides aloud, and everyone cheers.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 presenter	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 presenter	compound
3	presenter	presenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	nsubj
4	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 back	nmod:poss
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 reads	cc
8	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 turns	conj
9	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 slides	nummod
10	slides	slide	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 reads	obj
11	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	8 reads	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cheers	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cheers	cc
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 cheers	nsubj
15	cheers	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 turns	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turns	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	a cartoon presenter	presenter's back					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme
2	read	present	a cartoon presenter not said here	ten slides				aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slide=Topic
3	cheer	present	everyone						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 would really happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 happen	advmod
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

People would drift off; he should face them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drift	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 drift	aux
3	drift	drift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 drift	compound:prt
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 face	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 face	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 face	aux
8	face	face	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 drift	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 face	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drift off	would	People						vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	face	should	he	People					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination

Option 2

Nobody would notice which way he faced

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 notice	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 notice	aux
3	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 notice	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 faced	nsubj
7	faced	face	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 way	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	would	Nobody	which way					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
2	face	past	he	which way not said here					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Destination

Option 3

The audience would beg for more text

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 audience	det
2	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beg	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 beg	aux
4	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 text	case
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 text	amod
7	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beg	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	would	the audience					for more text	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for text=Topic

Option 4

People would love it, as the slides are the talk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 love	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 love	aux
3	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 love	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 talk	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 talk	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 slides	det
8	slides	slide	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 talk	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 talk	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 talk	det
11	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 love	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	would	People	it					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	is a	present	the slides	the talk					tree rules

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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