Test 8 · ★ · Honest work at school

Why does a false reading log hurt the child who writes it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: false reading log, child · What happens: hurt, write · To what, where: child

This is test 8 · ★ 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	7 hurt	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hurt	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 log	det
4	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 log	amod
5	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 log	compound
6	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hurt	nsubj
7	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hurt	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 writes	nsubj
11	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 child	acl:relcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 writes	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 hurt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present · do-support	a false reading log	the child					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Patient
2	write	present	the child	child					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 · ← Mova's choice

The child will have to read more books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 read	mark
6	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 books	amod
8	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	future	the child						tree rules
2	read	to-infinitive	the child not said here	more books					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The teacher cannot help with reading she does not know about

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	5 help	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 help	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 help	advmod
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 reading	case
7	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 help	obl
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 know	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 know	advmod
11	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 reading	acl:relcl
12	about	about	ADP	_	11 know	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not help	can	the teacher					with reading	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with reading=Theme
2	not know about	present · do-support	teacher	reading not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reading=Stimulus

Option 3

Reading logs are marked very strictly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 logs	amod
2	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 marked	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 marked	aux:pass
4	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 strictly	advmod
6	strictly	strictly	ADV	_	4 marked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	gerund							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mark	present · passive		Reading logs				strictly property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

Option 4

It does not hurt anyone at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hurt	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hurt	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hurt	advmod
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 hurt	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 hurt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hurt	present · do-support	It	anyone		all			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient

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