Test 14 · Sounds that warn

smoke alarm keeps beeping every minute, so annoying, can i take the battery out

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: smoke alarm, i · What happens: keep, beep, take out · To what, where: battery

This is test 14 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	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 alarm	compound
2	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	beeping	beep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keeps	xcomp
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 minute	det
6	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beeping	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 annoying	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 annoying	advmod
9	annoying	annoying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keeps	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 take	punct
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 take	aux
12	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 take	nsubj
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 keeps	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 battery	det
15	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	13 take	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	keep	present	smoke alarm			tree rules
2	beep	gerund	smoke alarm not said here		minute	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take out	can	i	the battery		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, tell an adult so they can put in a new battery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 adult	det
5	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 put	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 put	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 put	aux
9	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 battery	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 battery	det
12	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 battery	amod
13	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	put	can	they			a new battery			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in battery=Destination

Option 2

Yes, take it out until morning, then put it back in again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 take	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 take	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 take	compound:prt
6	until	until	ADP	_	7 morning	case
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 put	advmod
10	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 take	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	obj
12	back	back	ADV	_	10 put	advmod
13	in	in	ADV	_	10 put	advmod
14	again	again	ADV	_	10 put	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take out	imperative	you not said here	it			morning		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	put back	infinitive	you not said here	it			then; again		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

Option 3

Yes, it is only a test beep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 beep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 beep	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 beep	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 beep	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 beep	det
7	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beep	compound
8	beep	beep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a test beep					tree rules

Option 4

Yes, put a sock over it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 put	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sock	det
5	sock	sock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	a sock		sock			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sock=Theme over it=Destination

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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