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Test 6 · Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up

A cartoon pencil shows «a» starting at the bottom and going up. What should it show?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon pencil, pencil · What happens: show, start, go up · To what, where: bottom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 of lesson 5 «Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up» 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 pencil shows «a» starting at the bottom and going up.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pencil	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pencil	compound
3	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shows	nsubj
4	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 a	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 starting	det
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 a	punct
8	starting	start	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 shows	ccomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 bottom	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bottom	det
11	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 starting	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 going	cc
13	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 starting	conj
14	up	up	ADV	_	13 going	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a cartoon pencil						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	start	gerund				the bottom			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	go up	gerund							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 should it show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 show	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	should	pencil						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1

Start with a dot in the middle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 dot	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dot	det
4	dot	dot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Start	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 middle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 middle	det
7	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Start	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	imperative	you not said here			the middle		with a dot	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with dot=Subeventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Start at the bottom on the line, then go up and round the other way, like a backwards c

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 bottom	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bottom	det
4	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Start	obl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 line	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 line	det
7	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Start	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 go	advmod
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Start	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 go	compound:prt
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 round	cc
13	round	round	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Start	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 way	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 way	amod
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 round	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 c	punct
18	like	like	ADP	_	21 c	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 c	det
20	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	21 c	advmod
21	c	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 round	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	imperative	you not said here			the bottom		on the line	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	go up	infinitive	you not said here				then		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	round	infinitive	you not said here	the other way				like a c	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent way=Patient

Option 3

Start from the right and go left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 right	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 right	det
4	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Start	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 go	cc
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Start	conj
7	left	left	ADV	_	6 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	imperative	you not said here			the right			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	go	infinitive	you not said here					left property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Start like a c at the top, then the down stroke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 c	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 c	det
4	c	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Start	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 top	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 top	det
7	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Start	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stroke	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 stroke	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stroke	det
11	down	down	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stroke	amod
12	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Start	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	imperative	you not said here	the down stroke		the top		like a c	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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