Test 7 · ★ · Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling

Why is it polite to ask before picking a neighbour's flowers?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, ask, pick · To what, where: flowers

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 polite	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 polite	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 polite	expl
4	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 ask	mark
6	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 polite	csubj
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 picking	mark
8	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 ask	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 neighbour	det
10	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flowers	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 neighbour	case
12	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 picking	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 polite	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present		polite property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pick	gerund	a neighbour's flowers		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient

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 right answer

The garden and its flowers belong to someone else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 garden	det
2	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 belong	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 flowers	cc
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 flowers	nmod:poss
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 garden	conj
6	belong	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 someone	case
8	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 belong	obl
9	else	else	ADV	_	8 someone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	present	the garden and its flowers					to someone	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Flowers die if they are not picked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 die	nsubj
2	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 picked	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 picked	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 picked	aux:pass
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 picked	advmod
7	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 die	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	Flowers						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	not pick a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		Flowers = flower					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

Neighbours like being woken up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 woken	nsubj:pass
2	like	like	SCONJ	_	4 woken	mark
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 woken	aux:pass
4	woken	wake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 woken	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	gerund · passive		Neighbours					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Asking makes flowers grow faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present		flowers		tree rules
3	grow	infinitive	flowers not said here		fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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