Test 9 · Sounds that warn
Ava in Auckland sees smoke pouring from the house next door. Which number should she call?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ava, smoke, number · What happens: see, pour, call · To what, where: smoke, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 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
Sentence 1: Ava in Auckland sees smoke pouring from the house next door.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sees | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Auckland | case |
| 3 | Auckland | Auckland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ava | nmod |
| 4 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sees | obj |
| 6 | pouring | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 smoke | acl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pouring | obl |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 door | amod |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sees | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | Ava in Auckland | smoke | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smoke=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | pour | gerund | smoke not said here | the house next door | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from house=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.
Sentence 2: Which number should she call?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 number | det |
| 2 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 call | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 call | aux |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 call | nsubj |
| 5 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 call | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | should | which number | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
911
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 911 | 911 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
999
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 999 | 999 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
000
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 000 | 000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
111
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 111 | 111 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/t9/