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Test 14 · ★ · Growing, seeing and hearing

Tom squints at the board and his marks are falling. What should happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tom, marks · What happens: squint, fall, mark, happen

This is test 14 · ★ 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: Tom squints at the board and his marks are falling.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 squints	nsubj
2	squints	squint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 board	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 board	det
5	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 squints	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 falling	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 marks	nmod:poss
8	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 falling	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 falling	aux
10	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 squints	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 squints	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squint	present	Tom					at the board	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at board=Theme
2	fall	present · progressive	Tom's marks						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mark		Tom						nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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 happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	should							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He ignores it, eyes fix themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignores	nsubj
2	ignores	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignores	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fix	punct
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fix	nsubj
6	fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ignores	parataxis
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 fix	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	present	He	it					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	fix	present	eyes	eyes = eye					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He tells an adult and gets his eyes checked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 adult	det
4	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gets	cc
6	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	ccomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eyes	nmod:poss
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 checked	nsubj
9	checked	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gets	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	He		a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic
2	get	present							vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	check	past	adult's eyes						vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He moves to sit further back, away from the glare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 moves	nsubj
2	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sit	mark
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 moves	xcomp
5	further	further	ADV	_	6 back	advmod
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 sit	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 away	punct
8	away	away	ADV	_	4 sit	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 glare	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 glare	det
11	glare	glare	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	He						tree rules
2	sit	to-infinitive	He not said here					away property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He copies from his neighbour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 copies	nsubj
2	copies	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 neighbour	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 neighbour	nmod:poss
5	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 copies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	present	He			his neighbour			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: 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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