Test 16 · Eyes up: noticing your surroundings

Zoe says she can text and look at the road same time. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Zoe · What happens: say, text, look · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 of lesson 11 «Eyes up: noticing your surroundings» 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	Zoe	Zoe	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 text	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 text	aux
5	text	text	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 look	cc
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 text	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	12 time	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 time	compound
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 text	punct
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 text	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Zoe		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	text	can	Zoe		tree rules
3	look	infinitive	Zoe not said here	time	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, if the text is short

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 short	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 short	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 text	det
5	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 short	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 short	cop
7	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Yes, girls can do two things at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 things	nummod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	can	girls	two things					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, your attention can only be in one place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	10 place	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 attention	nmod:poss
4	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 place	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 place	aux
6	only	only	ADV	_	10 place	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 place	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 place	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 place	nummod
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	your attention			one place			tree rules
2	attend		your						nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Yes, if she uses one hand and holds the phone up high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 uses	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 uses	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 uses	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 uses	nsubj
5	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hand	nummod
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 uses	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 holds	cc
9	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 uses	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 phone	det
11	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 holds	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	9 holds	compound:prt
13	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 holds	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	she	one hand					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	hold up	present	she not said here	the phone				high property	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot phone=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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