Test 4 · ★ · Greeting neighbours and new people
Your frisbee lands in the garden of a neighbour you do not know. What do you do?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: frisbee, you · What happens: land, not know, do · To what, where: garden, neighbour
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 123 «Greeting neighbours and new people» 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: Your frisbee lands in the garden of a neighbour you do not know.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 frisbee | nmod:poss |
| 2 | frisbee | frisbee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lands | nsubj |
| 3 | lands | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 garden | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 garden | det |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lands | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 neighbour | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 neighbour | det |
| 9 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 garden | nmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 know | advmod |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 neighbour | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lands | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | present | Your frisbee | the garden of a neighbour | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in garden=Destination | ||||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | you | a neighbour not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer neighbour=Stimulus |
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 do you do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · do-support | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1
Send your little brother over the fence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 brother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Send | obj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 fence | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fence | det |
| 7 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Send | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | imperative | you not said here | your little brother | the fence | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Knock, say sorry and ask if you may get it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Knock | knock | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Knock | conj |
| 4 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 say | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ask | cc |
| 6 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Knock | conj |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 get | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 get | aux |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ask | ccomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 get | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | imperative | you not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: apologize | infinitive | you not said here | sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | get a condition, not said to happen | may | you | it | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 3
Forget it and never play near the fence again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Forget | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 play | cc |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 play | advmod |
| 5 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Forget | conj |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 8 fence | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fence | det |
| 8 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 play | obl |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 play | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | imperative | you not said here | it | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not play | infinitive | you not said here | the fence | again | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Jump the fence while they are out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jump | jump | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fence | det |
| 3 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jump | obj |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 out | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 out | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 out | cop |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 1 Jump | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | imperative | you not said here | the fence | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fence=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | present | they | out property | tree rules |
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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