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Test 9 · ★ · Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark

A girl needs a drink of water at night but the hallway is dark. What is best?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, hallway · What happens: need, be · To what, where: drink

This is test 9 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A girl needs a drink of water at night but the hallway is dark.

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	3 needs	nsubj
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 drink	det
5	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 water	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drink	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	obl
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 dark	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hallway	det
12	hallway	hallway	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dark	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 dark	cop
14	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 needs	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 needs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	a girl	a drink of water			night		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot drink=Theme
2	is	present	the hallway					dark property	tree rules

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 is best?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 best	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 best	cop
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 best	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						good property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Run through the dark as fast as she can

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	through	through	ADP	_	4 dark	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dark	det
4	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Run	obl
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Run	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 can	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 can	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fast	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here			the dark		fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through dark=Trajectory

Option 2

Walk down with her eyes shut tight

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	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 eyes	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eyes	nmod:poss
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Walk	obl
6	shut	shut	ADV	_	7 tight	advmod
7	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Walk	advcl

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

Option 3

Wait until morning without a drink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	until	until	ADP	_	3 morning	case
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
4	without	without	ADP	_	6 drink	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 drink	det
6	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here				morning	without a drink	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Switch on the lights as she goes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 lights	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lights	det
4	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Switch	nmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 goes	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 goes	nsubj
7	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Switch	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	she						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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