Test 3 · ★ · Responsibility, independence and curiosity

Which is true about curiosity?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 curiosity	case
5	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about curiosity; true 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Asking and looking for answers helps you learn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 helps	csubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 looking	cc
3	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Asking	conj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 answers	case
5	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 looking	obl
6	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 helps	obj
8	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 helps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	gerund			for answers	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for answer=Theme
3	help	present	Asking	you		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	learn	infinitive	you not said here			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Curiosity is only for scientists

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scientists	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 scientists	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 scientists	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 scientists	case
5	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Curiosity					for scientists	tree rules

Option 3

Clever children never need to ask

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 need	advmod
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 ask	mark
6	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 need	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present	Clever children						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	Clever children not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Asking questions is rude to adults and wastes their time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 rude	csubj
2	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Asking	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rude	cop
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 adults	case
6	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rude	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wastes	cc
8	wastes	waste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rude	conj
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 time	nmod:poss
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wastes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund		questions			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
2	is	present	Asking			to adults; rude property	tree rules
3	waste	present	Asking not said here		time		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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