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Test 1 · ★ · Birthday parties

A girl in Denver hands out invitations at the classroom door, and two children get none. Why is this unkind?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, two children, this · What happens: hand out, get, be · To what, where: invitations, classroom door, none

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 130 «Birthday parties» 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: A girl in Denver hands out invitations at the classroom door, and two children get none.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hands	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Denver	case
4	Denver	Denver	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	hands	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 hands	compound:prt
7	invitations	invitation	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hands	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 door	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 door	det
10	classroom	classroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 door	compound
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hands	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 get	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 get	cc
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 children	nummod
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 get	nsubj
16	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hands	conj
17	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	16 get	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hands	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand out	present	a girl in Denver	invitations		the classroom door			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme
2	get	present	two children	none					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer none=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: Why is this unkind?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 unkind	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unkind	cop
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 unkind	nsubj
4	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 unkind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this					unkind property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Invitations should always be posted by mail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Invitations	invitation	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 posted	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 posted	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 posted	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 posted	aux:pass
5	posted	post	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 mail	case
7	mail	mail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 posted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	post	should · passive	mail	Invitations				always property	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Being left out in public hurts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 left	aux:pass
2	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 left	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hurts	case
5	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hurts	amod
6	hurts	hurt	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave out	gerund · passive				public hurts			vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»

Option 3

The teacher must invite everyone herself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 invite	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 invite	aux
4	invite	invite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 invite	obj
6	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 invite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invite	must	the teacher	everyone					tree rules

Option 4

Parties must never be held on school days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 held	nsubj:pass
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 held	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 held	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 held	aux:pass
5	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 days	compound
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 held	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hold	must · passive		Parties			day		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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