Test 8 · Eyes up: noticing your surroundings

Which helps you spot something unusual in your street?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: help, spot · To what, where: you, something

This is test 8 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 helps	obj
4	spot	spot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helps	xcomp
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 spot	obj
6	unusual	unusual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 something	amod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 street	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 street	nmod:poss
9	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spot	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 helps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present		you					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	spot	infinitive	you not said here	something				in your street	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent something=Destination in street=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

Walking through it only at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	through	through	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Walking	obl
4	only	only	ADV	_	1 Walking	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund				it	night		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Trajectory

Option 2

Never looking at the street at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 looking	advmod
2	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 street	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 street	det
5	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looking	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not look	gerund						at all; at the street	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at street=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Knowing what it usually looks like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 looks	csubj
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Knowing	obj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 what	nsubj
4	usually	usually	ADV	_	5 looks	advmod
5	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	5 looks	mark

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	gerund							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	look	present	Knowing					usually property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Listening to loud music as you go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 music	case
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 music	amod
4	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Listening	obl
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 go	mark
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	1 Listening	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	gerund						to loud music	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to music=Theme
2	go	present	you						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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