Test 2 · ★ · Honest work at school

Why do teachers give tests, really?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: teachers · What happens: give · To what, where: tests

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 201 «Honest work at school» 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 give	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
3	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	nsubj
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 really	punct
7	really	really	ADV	_	4 give	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · do-support	teachers	tests					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Theme

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

To catch children who are lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 catch	mark
2	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 catch	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lazy	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lazy	cop
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 children	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	to-infinitive		children					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
2	is	present	children					lazy property	tree rules

Option 2

To make children nervous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		children				nervous property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset child=Product

Option 3

To decide once and for all who is clever and who is not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 decide	mark
2	decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 decide	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 clever	cc
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 clever	obl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 clever	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 clever	cop
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 decide	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 who	cc
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	9 clever	parataxis
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 who	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 who	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	other	roles by
1	decide	to-infinitive	once property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	for all; clever property	tree rules
3	not is a	present		tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To find out what you know so they can help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 find	mark
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 find	compound:prt
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 find	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 know	nsubj
6	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 what	acl:relcl
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	10 help	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 help	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 help	aux
10	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 find	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	find out	to-infinitive		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	know	present	you	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	help	can	they	vn help-72.1-1-1 «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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