Test 19 · Eyes up: noticing your surroundings

Sophie walked into the glass door at the mall staring at her phone lol everyone's talking

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sophie, mall, everyone · What happens: walk, stare, talk · To what, where: glass door

This is test 19 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	Sophie	Sophie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 door	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
5	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 door	compound
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 mall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mall	det
9	mall	mall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
10	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 mall	acl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 phone	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 phone	nmod:poss
13	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 staring	obl
14	lol	lol	INTJ	_	17 talking	discourse
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 talking	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 talking	aux
17	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 walked	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	walk	past	Sophie	into the glass door result; at the mall	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into door=Result
2	stare	gerund	the mall not said here	at Sophie's phone	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at phone=Theme
3	talk	present · progressive	everyone		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Spread it, because it is true and very funny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spread	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 true	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 true	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 true	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 true	cop
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Spread	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 funny	cc
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 funny	advmod
10	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 true	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spread	imperative	you not said here	it		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	is	present	it		true property	tree rules
3	be					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Do not spread it to laugh at her; if anything, learn to keep your own eyes up

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 spread	advmod
3	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spread	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 laugh	mark
6	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 spread	advcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 laugh	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 learn	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 learn	mark
11	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 learn	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 anything	punct
13	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 keep	mark
15	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 learn	xcomp
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 eyes	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 eyes	amod
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 keep	obj
19	up	up	ADV	_	15 keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not spread	imperative · do-support	you not said here	it		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	laugh	to-infinitive	you not said here		at her = she	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	learn a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	you not said here	anything		tree rules
4	keep	to-infinitive	you not said here	your own eyes		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme

Option 3

Spread it, so she gets known as clumsy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spread	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 known	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	7 known	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 known	nsubj
6	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 known	aux:pass
7	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Spread	advcl
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 clumsy	case
9	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 known	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	imperative	you not said here	it					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	know	present · passive		she				as clumsy	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as clumsy=Attribute

Option 4

Spread it, but say it happened twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spread	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 say	cc
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Spread	parataxis
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 happened	nsubj
7	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
8	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 happened	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spread	imperative	you not said here	it		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	happen	past	it		twice property	vn occur-48.3-1 «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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