Test 2 · ★ · Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling

Which is the best way to get your frisbee back from a neighbour's roof garden?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, get back · To what, where: best way, frisbee, roof garden

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 way	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 frisbee	nmod:poss
9	frisbee	frisbee	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
10	back	back	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	16 garden	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 neighbour	det
13	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 garden	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 neighbour	case
15	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 garden	compound
16	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the best way					tree rules
2	get back	to-infinitive		your frisbee		a neighbour's roof garden			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent frisbee=Theme from garden=Source

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

Throw stones to knock it down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Throw	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 knock	mark
4	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Throw	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knock	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 knock	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	stones					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
2	knock down	to-infinitive	you not said here	it					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

Climb up the drainpipe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Climb	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 drainpipe	det
4	drainpipe	drainpipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Climb	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb up	imperative	you not said here	the drainpipe					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location drainpipe=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Knock on their door and ask politely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knock	knock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 door	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 door	nmod:poss
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Knock	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ask	cc
6	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Knock	conj
7	politely	politely	ADV	_	6 ask	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	imperative	you not said here			their door			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on door=Location
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here					politely property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Leave a rude note on their door telling them to throw it back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 note	det
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 note	amod
4	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 door	nmod:poss
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obl
8	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Leave	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 telling	iobj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 throw	mark
11	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 telling	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 throw	obj
13	back	back	ADV	_	11 throw	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	a rude note		their door	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent note=Theme on door=Location
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	you not said here		them = they		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	throw back	to-infinitive	you not said here	note			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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