Test 11 · ★ · Chores and broken things

broke mums mirror, 7 yrs bad luck now??

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: break · To what, where: mums mirror

This is test 11 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mirror	compound
3	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 broke	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 broke	punct
5	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 yrs	nummod
6	yrs	year	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	1 broke	obl
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 luck	amod
8	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 broke	obj
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 broke	advmod
10	??	??	PUNCT	_	1 broke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past		mums mirror			now; year		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent mirror=Patient luck=Result

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

Only if it breaks into seven bits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 breaks	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 breaks	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 breaks	nsubj
4	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 bits	case
6	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 bits	nummod
7	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 breaks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	it					into seven bits result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into bit=Result

Option 2

Yes, but only for three years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 years	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 years	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 years	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 years	case
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, that's a superstition; just be careful of the glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 superstition	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 superstition	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 superstition	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 superstition	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 superstition	det
6	superstition	superstition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 careful	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 careful	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 careful	cop
10	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 superstition	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 glass	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 glass	det
13	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 careful	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	a superstition					tree rules
2	is	infinitive						of the glass; careful property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, unless you bury the pieces in the garden tonight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 bury	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bury	punct
3	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	5 bury	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 bury	nsubj
5	bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pieces	det
7	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bury	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 garden	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 garden	det
10	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bury	obl
11	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bury	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	present	you	the pieces		the garden	tonight		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme in garden=Destination

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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