Test 6 · ★ · Growing, seeing and hearing

Why might a child who cannot see the board start doing worse at school?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child, board start · What happens: not see, do · To what, where: board start, school

This is test 6 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 might	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 see	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 see	advmod
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 child	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 start	det
10	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 start	compound
11	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	obj
12	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 start	acl
13	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 doing	xcomp
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 school	case
15	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 doing	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	a child	the board start					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer start=Stimulus
2	do	gerund	the board start not said here			school		bad property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

Seeing badly is always their fault

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 fault	csubj
2	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Seeing	advmod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fault	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 fault	advmod
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fault	nmod:poss
6	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	gerund						badly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	Seeing	their fault				always property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They miss what is written, so an eye test can really help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 miss	nsubj
2	miss	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 written	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 written	aux:pass
5	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 miss	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 help	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	13 help	advmod
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 test	det
9	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 test	compound
10	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 help	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 help	aux
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 help	advmod
13	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 miss	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	miss	present	They	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	write	present · passive		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	help	can	a eye test	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Eye tests make reading harder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tests	compound
2	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
5	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Eye tests	reading				hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset reading=Product

Option 4

Blurry boards make you less clever over time, so marks drop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blurry	blurry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 boards	amod
2	boards	board	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 make	obj
5	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 clever	advmod
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 make	xcomp
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 time	case
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clever	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 drop	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 drop	advmod
11	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 drop	nsubj
12	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 make	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Blurry boards	you				clever property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product
2	drop	present	marks						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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