Test 13 · ★ · Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark

theres a monster under my bed i heard it

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: theres · What happens: hear · To what, where: monster

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 100 «Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	theres	there	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 heard	nsubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 monster	det
3	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	nsubj
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 bed	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bed	nmod:poss
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 monster	nmod
7	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	theres	monster					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=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.

The options

Option 1

Sleep on the floor instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 floor	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 floor	det
4	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sleep	nmod
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Sleep	advmod

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

Option 2

Shout at it so it goes away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shout	obl
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 goes	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 goes	nsubj
6	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Shout	advcl
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 goes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here			it			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go away	present	it					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Monsters are not real, look with a torch and a parent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 real	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 real	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 real	advmod
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 real	parataxis
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 torch	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 torch	det
9	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 parent	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 parent	det
12	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 torch	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Monsters					real property	tree rules
2	look	infinitive						with a torch and a parent	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Yes, keep your feet under the covers all night so it can't grab u

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 keep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feet	nmod:poss
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	obj
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 covers	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 covers	det
8	covers	cover	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	obl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 covers	nmod:unmarked
11	so	so	ADV	_	15 grab	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 grab	nsubj
13	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 grab	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 grab	advmod
15	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 keep	advcl
16	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 grab	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	your feet		the covers all night			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent foot=Theme under cover=Location
2	not grab	can	it	u					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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