Test 11 · Sounds that warn

alarm just chirps once every min, fire??

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: alarm · What happens: chirp · To what, where: min

This is test 11 of lesson 12 «Sounds that warn» 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	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chirps	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 chirps	advmod
3	chirps	chirp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 chirps	advmod
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 min	det
6	min	min	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chirps	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fire	punct
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 min	conj
9	??	??	PUNCT	_	3 chirps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chirp	present	alarm	every min and fire				once property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent min=Theme

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

It means someone is at the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 door	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 door	cop
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	someone			the door			tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, get out right now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 get	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 get	advmod
5	right	right	ADV	_	6 now	advmod
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get out	imperative	you not said here				now	out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, probably the battery is low

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 low	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	7 low	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 battery	det
5	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 low	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 low	cop
7	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the battery					low, probably property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, call the fire brigade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 call	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brigade	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brigade	compound
6	brigade	brigade	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 call	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here	the fire brigade					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brigade=Recipient

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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