Test 5 · ★★ · Home alone, keys and garden play

Why is a doormat a bad hiding place for a spare key?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: doormat · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 116 «Home alone, keys and garden play» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 doormat	det
4	doormat	doormat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 place	det
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 place	amod
7	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 place	compound
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 key	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 key	det
11	spare	spare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 key	amod
12	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 place	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

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

The key gets too cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 key	det
2	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 cold	advmod
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the key					cold property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

The postman takes the key

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 postman	det
2	postman	postman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	nsubj
3	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 key	det
5	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	the postman	the key					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Burglars look there first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burglars	burglar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 look	nsubj
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 look	advmod
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 look	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	Burglars			there		first property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Keys rust under doormats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rust	nsubj
2	rust	rust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	4 doormats	case
4	doormats	doormat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rust	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rust	present	Keys			doormats			vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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