Test 1 · ★ · Chores and broken things
Ella in Leeds finds that her mess makes her late every morning. Which change would help her most?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ella, mess, change · What happens: find, make, mess, help · To what, where: Ella · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 111 «Chores and broken things» 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: Ella in Leeds finds that her mess makes her late every morning.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 finds | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Leeds | case |
| 3 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ella | nmod |
| 4 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 makes | mark |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mess | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 makes | nsubj |
| 8 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 finds | ccomp |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 makes | obj |
| 10 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 makes | advmod |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 morning | det |
| 12 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 makes | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 finds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | Ella in Leeds | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | present | Ella's mess | Ella | morning | late property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product | ||
| 3 | mess | Ella | nom mess «state transitive»: poss=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.
Sentence 2: Which change would help her most?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 change | det |
| 2 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 help | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 help | obj |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 help | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | would | which change | Ella | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
The options
Option 1
Leaving everything out so she can see it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 1 Leaving | obj |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Leaving | compound:prt |
| 4 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Leaving | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 see | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave out | gerund | everything | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | can | she | it | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 2
Tidying only when friends come round
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tidying | tidy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 come | advmod |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 come | nsubj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tidying | advcl |
| 6 | round | round | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tidy | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | come round | present | friends | round property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Giving her things a place and tidying a little each day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Giving | iobj |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Giving | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Giving | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tidying | cc |
| 7 | tidying | tidy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Giving | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 little | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tidying | obj |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tidying | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund | things | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tidy | gerund | a little | day | tree rules |
Option 4
Buying more school things so some are always lying about
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buying | buy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 things | amod |
| 3 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 things | compound |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Buying | obj |
| 5 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 9 lying | mark |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 lying | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lying | aux |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 lying | advmod |
| 9 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Buying | advcl |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 lying | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | gerund | more school things | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lie | present · progressive | some | about, always property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/111-chores-and-broken-things/t1/