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Test 9 · Going up and down stairs safely

A mum carries a baby upstairs. Why is her other hand on the rail?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: carry, be · To what, where: baby, other hand, rail

This is test 9 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 mum carries a baby upstairs.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mum	det
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carries	nsubj
3	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 baby	det
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carries	obj
6	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	3 carries	advmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 carries	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	a mum	a baby				upstairs property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme

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: Why is her other hand on the rail?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hand	cop
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hand	amod
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 rail	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rail	det
8	rail	rail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hand	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		mum's other hand		the rail			tree rules

The options

Option 1

To count the steps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 count	mark
2	count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 steps	det
4	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 count	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	to-infinitive		the steps					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To keep the rail clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rail	det
4	rail	rail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
5	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		the rail				clean property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rail=Theme

Option 3

Because the baby likes the rail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 likes	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 baby	det
3	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 likes	nsubj
4	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rail	det
6	rail	rail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 likes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	the baby	the rail					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rail=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

So she can hold on if she slips

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 hold	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hold	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hold	aux
4	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 hold	compound:prt
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 slips	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 slips	nsubj
8	slips	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hold	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold on	can	she						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	slip a condition, not said to happen	present	she						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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