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Test 1 · Going up and down stairs safely

A girl in Toronto carries a stack of books so tall she cannot see the steps. What should she do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: carry, not see, do · To what, where: stack, steps

This is test 1 of lesson 1 «Going up and down stairs safely» of the everyday 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 girl in Toronto carries a stack of books so tall she cannot see the steps.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carries	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Toronto	case
4	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stack	det
7	stack	stack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carries	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 books	case
9	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stack	nmod
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 tall	advmod
11	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 carries	xcomp
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 see	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 see	advmod
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 carries	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 steps	det
17	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 see	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 carries	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	a girl in Toronto	a stack of books				tall property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stack=Theme
2	not see	can	girl	the steps					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer step=Stimulus

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 she do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

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

Carry fewer books so she can see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 books	amod
3	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Carry	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	7 see	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Carry	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	imperative	you not said here	fewer books					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme
2	see	can	she						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Lean back and keep going

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lean	lean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Lean	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 keep	cc
4	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Lean	conj
5	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lean back	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here						tree rules
3	go	gerund	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Walk down backwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Walk	compound:prt
3	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk down	imperative	you not said here					backwards property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Go down faster before she drops them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Go	advmod
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 drops	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drops	nsubj
6	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	advcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drops	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	imperative	you not said here					down, fast property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	drop	present	she	them = they					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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