Test 6 · ★★★ · Thinking about noticing
A girl hears a beep but cannot tell if it is in front of her or behind her. What should she do?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, beep · What happens: hear, not tell, be, do · To what, where: beep, front · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★★★ 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: A girl hears a beep but cannot tell if it is in front of her or behind her.
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 | 3 hears | nsubj |
| 3 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 beep | det |
| 5 | beep | beep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hears | obj |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 tell | cc |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 tell | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 tell | advmod |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hears | conj |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 front | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 front | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 front | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 front | case |
| 14 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tell | ccomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 front | conj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 her | cc |
| 18 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 her | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hears | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | a girl | a beep | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer beep=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | can | a girl not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | beep | front | tree rules |
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 should she do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 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 | should | girl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1
Stand perfectly still and wait for it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 1 Stand | advmod |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 1 Stand | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wait | cc |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stand | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wait | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | imperative | you not said here | still | perfectly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | wait | infinitive | you not said here | for it | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Shut her eyes as tightly as she can
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eyes | amod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 tightly | advmod |
| 5 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 3 eyes | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 can | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 can | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 tightly | advcl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Cover both ears at the same time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 ears | det |
| 3 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cover | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cover | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | imperative | you not said here | both ears | time | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ear=Destination |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Turn her head and listen again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 head | nmod:poss |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Turn | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 listen | cc |
| 5 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Turn | conj |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 listen | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | imperative | you not said here | her head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | listen | infinitive | you not said here | again | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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