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Test 9 · ★ · Sharing, sleep and safe food

A boy keeps putting his shoes on before his trousers. What is the quicker order?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, quicker order · What happens: keep, put, be · To what, where: shoes, trousers

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 209 «Sharing, sleep and safe food» 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 boy keeps putting his shoes on before his trousers.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 keeps	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shoes	nmod:poss
6	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 putting	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 trousers	case
8	before	before	ADP	_	10 trousers	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 trousers	nmod:poss
10	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 putting	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	a boy						tree rules
2	put	gerund	a boy not said here	boy's shoes		boy's trousers			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme on trousers=Destination

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 is the quicker order?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 order	det
4	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 order	amod
5	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the quicker order						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Socks, shoes, then underwear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 shoes	punct
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Socks	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 underwear	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 underwear	advmod
6	underwear	underwear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Socks	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Underwear, clothes, then socks and shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Underwear	underwear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 clothes	punct
3	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	1 Underwear	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 socks	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 socks	advmod
6	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Underwear	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shoes	cc
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Underwear	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Shoes first, then pull the trousers on over them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pull	nsubj
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 pull	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pull	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 pull	advmod
5	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trousers	det
7	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pull	obj
8	on	on	ADV	_	5 pull	advmod
9	over	over	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pull	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	infinitive	Shoes	the trousers			then	over trousers; first property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trousers=Theme

Option 4

Any order is just as quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 order	det
2	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 quick	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 quick	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 quick	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 quick	advmod
6	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	any order					quick 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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