Test 1 · ★ · Growing, seeing and hearing
A girl in Vermont sits in the front row but still cannot read the board. What is the likely next step?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, likely next step · What happens: sit, not read, be · To what, where: front row, board
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 211 «Growing, seeing and hearing» 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 in Vermont sits in the front row but still cannot read the board.
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 | 5 sits | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Vermont | case |
| 4 | Vermont | Vermont | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 row | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 row | det |
| 8 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 row | amod |
| 9 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sits | obl |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 read | cc |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 read | advmod |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 read | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 read | advmod |
| 14 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sits | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 board | det |
| 16 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 read | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | a girl in Vermont | the front row | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location | ||||
| 2 | not read | can | a girl in Vermont not said here | the board | still | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Topic |
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 likely next step?
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 | 6 step | det |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 step | amod |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 step | amod |
| 6 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the likely next step | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Moving to a different school with bigger whiteboards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 school | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 school | det |
| 4 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 school | amod |
| 5 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Moving | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 whiteboards | case |
| 7 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 whiteboards | amod |
| 8 | whiteboards | whiteboard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Moving | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | gerund | a different school | with bigger whiteboards | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to school=Trajectory |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Telling her parents and having an eye test
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 parents | nmod:poss |
| 3 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Telling | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 having | cc |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Telling | conj |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 test | det |
| 7 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 test | compound |
| 8 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 having | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | her parents | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | have | gerund | a eye test | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Patient |
Option 3
Sitting even closer each week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 3 closer | advmod |
| 3 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Sitting | advmod |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 week | det |
| 5 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sitting | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | week | close property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Giving up reading
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Giving | compound:prt |
| 3 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Giving | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | gerund | reading | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reading=Source |
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