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Test 6 · Eyes up: noticing your surroundings

Your friend says, "Anyone would notice a gorilla walking past." Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend, Anyone, gorilla · What happens: say, notice, walk, be · To what, where: gorilla · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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

Sentence 1: Your friend says, "Anyone would notice a gorilla walking past."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 notice	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 notice	punct
6	Anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 notice	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 notice	aux
8	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 gorilla	det
10	gorilla	gorilla	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 notice	obj
11	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 gorilla	acl
12	past	past	ADV	_	11 walking	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 notice	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 notice	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	notice in a quote	would	Anyone	a gorilla					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer gorilla=Stimulus
3	walk in a quote	gerund	a gorilla not said here					past property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: Which is true?

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	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Everyone always notices big surprising things, like a gorilla

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 notices	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 notices	advmod
3	notices	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
5	surprising	surprising	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 notices	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gorilla	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 gorilla	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 gorilla	det
10	gorilla	gorilla	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 things	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	present	Everyone	big surprising things				like a gorilla; always property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

Option 2

Only people with poor eyesight miss it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 people	advmod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 miss	case
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 miss	amod
5	eyesight	eyesight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 miss	amod
6	miss	miss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 people	nmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 people	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Only very young children ever miss it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 children	advmod
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 young	advmod
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 children	amod
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 miss	nsubj
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 miss	advmod
6	miss	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 miss	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	present	young children	it			ever		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Many people miss it when their attention is busy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 miss	nsubj
3	miss	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 miss	obj
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 busy	mark
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 attention	nmod:poss
7	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 busy	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 busy	cop
9	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 miss	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	present	Many people	it					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	is	present	people's attention					busy property	tree rules
3	attend		people						nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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