Test 16 · ★ · Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling
parcel guy says he needs to come in to sign
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: parcel guy, guy · What happens: say, need, come in, sign · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 16 · ★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | parcel | parcel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 guy | compound |
| 2 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 needs | nsubj |
| 5 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 needs | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 sign | mark |
| 10 | sign | sign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | parcel guy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | need | present | guy | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come in not said to happen | to-infinitive | guy not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sign | to-infinitive | guy not said here | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Open the back door instead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 3 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 door | compound |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Open | obj |
| 5 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 1 Open | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | imperative | you not said here | the back door | instead property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
Option 2
Go out to his van
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 van | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 van | nmod:poss |
| 5 | van | van | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | imperative | you not said here | to his van; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Let him in quick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 quick | case |
| 4 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Let | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | him = he | quick | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Don't let him in, get your parent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 let | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 parent | nmod:poss |
| 9 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let in | imperative · do-support | you not said here | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | you not said here | your parent | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parent=Stimulus |
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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