Test 1 · ★★★ · Thinking about noticing
Standing at a street corner, you hear a bike bell but see no bike. Which is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: stand, hear, see, be · To what, where: street corner, bike bell, bike
This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 20 «Thinking about noticing» 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: Standing at a street corner, you hear a bike bell but see no bike.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 hear | advcl |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 corner | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 corner | det |
| 4 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 corner | compound |
| 5 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Standing | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Standing | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 hear | nsubj |
| 8 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bell | det |
| 10 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bell | compound |
| 11 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hear | obj |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hear | conj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 bike | det |
| 15 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hear | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | you not said here | a street corner | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at corner=Location | ||||
| 2 | hear | present | you | a bike bell | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bell=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | present | you not said here | no bike | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bike=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: Which is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The bike may be round the corner, since sound bends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bike | det |
| 2 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 corner | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 corner | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 corner | cop |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 corner | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 corner | det |
| 7 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bends | punct |
| 9 | since | since | ADP | _ | 11 bends | case |
| 10 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bends | compound |
| 11 | bends | bend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 corner | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | the bike | round the corner and sound bends | tree rules |
Option 2
There is no bike, it is only your imagination
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 bike | det |
| 4 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 imagination | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 imagination | cop |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 imagination | advmod |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 imagination | nmod:poss |
| 10 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no bike | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | bike | your imagination | tree rules |
Option 3
The sound is coming from the sky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sound | det |
| 2 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coming | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 coming | aux |
| 4 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 sky | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sky | det |
| 7 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coming | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · progressive | the sound | the sky | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sky=Initial_Location |
Option 4
The bike must be right beside you
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bike | det |
| 2 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 right | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 right | cop |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 6 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 right | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | the bike | beside you; right 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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