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Test 1 · ★ · Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling

Ruby in Toronto sees the post piling up outside the door of the old lady next door. What should she do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ruby, post · What happens: see, pile up, do · To what, where: post, door

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 117 «Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling» 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: Ruby in Toronto sees the post piling up outside the door of the old lady next door.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sees	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Toronto	case
3	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ruby	nmod
4	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 post	det
6	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sees	obj
7	piling	pile	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 post	acl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 piling	compound:prt
9	outside	outside	ADP	_	11 door	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 door	det
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 piling	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 lady	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lady	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lady	amod
15	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 door	nmod
16	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 door	amod
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lady	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sees	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Ruby in Toronto	the post					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer post=Stimulus
2	pile up	gerund	the post not said here			the door of the old lady and next door			vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme outside door=Destination

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: What should she do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	Ruby						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Ignore it, because what happens next door is not her business

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 happens	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 happens	mark
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 happens	nsubj
6	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 business	csubj
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 door	amod
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 happens	obj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 business	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 business	advmod
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 business	nmod:poss
12	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ignore	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	it					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	happen	present	her business	next door					tree rules
3	not is a	present		her business					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Take the post home to read it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 post	det
3	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
4	home	home	ADV	_	1 Take	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 read	mark
6	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Take	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	the post				home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent post=Theme
2	read	to-infinitive	you not said here	post					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

Push the post through the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 post	det
3	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Push	obj
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 window	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 window	det
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Push	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	imperative	you not said here	the post		the window			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent post=Theme through window=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tell her parents so someone can check on her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 parents	nmod:poss
3	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tell	iobj
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 check	mark
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 check	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 check	aux
7	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	ccomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 check	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her parents				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient clause=Topic
2	check	can	someone					on her = she	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on she=Location

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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