Test 6 · Greeting adults and teachers

Why should you take out your earbuds when an adult talks to you?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, adult · What happens: take out, talk · To what, where: earbuds, you

This is test 6 of lesson 121 «Greeting adults and teachers» 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 take	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 take	compound:prt
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 earbuds	nmod:poss
7	earbuds	earbud	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	obj
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 talks	mark
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 adult	det
10	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 talks	nsubj
11	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 take	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 you	case
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 talks	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take out	should	you	your earbuds					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earbud=Theme
2	talk	present	a adult		you				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent

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

Because it is against school rules everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 rules	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rules	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rules	cop
4	against	against	ADP	_	6 rules	case
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rules	compound
6	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 rules	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					against school rules; everywhere property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It shows you are really listening to them

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 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 listening	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 listening	aux
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 listening	advmod
6	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 shows	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 listening	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	listen	present · progressive	you		them = they				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme

Option 3

Because adults want to borrow them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 want	mark
2	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 borrow	mark
5	borrow	borrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 borrow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	adults						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	borrow not said to happen	to-infinitive	adults not said here	adults = adult					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

Because earbuds stop working near adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 stop	mark
2	earbuds	earbud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	near	near	ADP	_	6 adults	case
6	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 working	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	earbuds						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	work	gerund	earbuds not said here					near adults	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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