Test 2 · Bedroom, living room and manners at home
A girl in Texas finds ants in her bed. What most likely brought them?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: find, bring · To what, where: ants, bed
This is test 2 of lesson 119 «Bedroom, living room and manners at home» 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: A girl in Texas finds ants in her bed.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finds | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Texas | case |
| 4 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 finds | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 bed | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bed | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finds | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 finds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | a girl in Texas | ants | girl's bed | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=Topic |
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 most likely brought them?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 brought | obj |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 likely | advmod |
| 3 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 4 brought | advmod |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | ants = ant | likely property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme they=Destination |
The options
Option 1
A clean pillowcase on her pillow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pillowcase | det |
| 2 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pillowcase | amod |
| 3 | pillowcase | pillowcase | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 pillow | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pillow | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pillowcase | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
An open window left open all winter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 window | det |
| 2 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 window | amod |
| 3 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 window | acl |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 left | xcomp |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 winter | det |
| 7 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | a open window not said here | winter | open property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Crumbs from eating in bed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crumbs | crumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 3 eating | mark |
| 3 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Crumbs | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 bed | case |
| 5 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eating | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | gerund | Crumbs not said here | bed | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Her school books on the shelf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 books | nmod:poss |
| 2 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 books | compound |
| 3 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 shelf | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shelf | det |
| 6 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 books | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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