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Test 3 · Going up and down stairs safely

Tom slips on the top step of a long staircase. What helps him most?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tom · What happens: slip, step, help · To what, where: long staircase, Tom

This is test 3 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: Tom slips on the top step of a long staircase.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 slips	nsubj
2	slips	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 step	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 step	det
5	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 step	amod
6	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slips	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 staircase	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 staircase	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 staircase	amod
10	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 step	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 slips	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	present	Tom					on the top step of a long staircase	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	step			a long staircase					nom step «act transitive»: of=patient

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 helps him most?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 helps	obj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 helps	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 helps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present			Tom				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Being in a big hurry to get down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 hurry	cop
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 hurry	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hurry	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hurry	amod
5	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hurry	acl
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund				a big hurry			tree rules
2	get down	to-infinitive						down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Having his hands in his pockets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hands	nmod:poss
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Having	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 pockets	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pockets	nmod:poss
6	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Having	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund		his hands		his pockets			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

His hand already on the rail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hand	nmod:poss
2	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	already	already	ADV	_	6 rail	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 rail	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rail	det
6	rail	rail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hand	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

His heavy backpack pulling him back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 backpack	nmod:poss
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 backpack	amod
3	backpack	backpack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulling	nsubj
4	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pulling	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 pulling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull back	gerund	His heavy backpack	him = he					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result

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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