Test 7 · ★★ · Home alone, keys and garden play

Why is it important to close the front door when you come in?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, close, come in · To what, where: front door

This is test 7 · ★★ 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=Int	4 important	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 important	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 important	expl
4	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 close	mark
6	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 important	csubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
8	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 door	amod
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 close	obj
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 come	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 come	nsubj
12	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 close	advcl
13	in	in	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 important	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			important property	tree rules
2	close	to-infinitive		the front door		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
3	come in	present	you			vn escape-51.1-1 «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.

The options

Option 1

The door gets cold in winter and the wood starts to crack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 door	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gets	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 starts	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wood	det
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 starts	nsubj
10	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gets	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 crack	mark
12	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 starts	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the door	winter	cold property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	start	present	the wood			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	crack	to-infinitive	the wood not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Doors close by themselves anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 close	nsubj
2	close	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 themselves	case
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 close	obl
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	2 close	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	present	Doors					by Doors = door; anyway property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Pets can escape and strangers could walk in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 escape	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 escape	aux
3	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 walk	cc
5	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 walk	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 walk	aux
7	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 escape	conj
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	can	Pets						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk in	could	strangers						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It stops the post from arriving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 post	det
4	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stops	obj
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 arriving	mark
6	arriving	arrive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stops	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	It	the post					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality post=Eventuality
2	arrive	gerund							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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