Test 15 · ★ · Responsibility, independence and curiosity

mum let me walk to school alone, can i take the shortcut thru the building site

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, me, i · What happens: let, walk, take · To what, where: me, shortcut, building site

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 101 «Responsibility, independence and curiosity» 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	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 school	case
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walk	obl
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 walk	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 take	aux
10	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 take	nsubj
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shortcut	det
13	shortcut	shortcut	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obj
14	thru	through	ADP	Abbr=Yes	17 site	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 site	det
16	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 site	compound
17	site	site	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	mum	me			tree rules
2	walk	infinitive	me not said here			to school result; alone property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to school=Result
3	take	can	i	the shortcut	the building site		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shortcut=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, if you run

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 run	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 run	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 run	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 run	nsubj
5	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	you						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, stick to the safe way you agreed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 stick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 way	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stick	obl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 agreed	nsubj
9	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 way	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	imperative	you not said here					to the safe way	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to way=Co-Patient
2	agree speech: agree	past	you	the safe way not said here					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent way=Topic

Option 3

Yes, it's faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 faster	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 faster	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 faster	cop
5	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

Option 4

Only if no workers see you go through the site

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 see	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 see	mark
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 workers	det
4	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	nsubj
5	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 see	ccomp
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 site	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 site	det
10	site	site	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	no workers						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	go	present	you			the site			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through site=Initial_Location

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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