Test 9 · ★ · Growing, seeing and hearing

cant read the board from the back, its all blurry

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cant · What happens: read · To what, where: board, back

This is test 9 · ★ 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	cant	cant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 read	nsubj
2	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 board	det
4	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 read	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 back	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 back	det
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 read	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 all	punct
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 all	nmod:poss
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 read	ccomp
11	blurry	blurry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 all	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	cant	the board		the back			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent board=Topic from back=Source

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 right answer

Tell your teacher and a parent; you may need an eye test

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 teacher	nmod:poss
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 parent	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 parent	det
6	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 teacher	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 need	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 need	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 need	aux
10	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	parataxis
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 test	det
12	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 test	compound
13	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		your teacher and a parent				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
2	need	may	you	a eye test					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot test=Theme

Option 2

It's normal, ignore it

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	3 normal	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 normal	cop
3	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ignore	punct
5	ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 normal	parataxis
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ignore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					normal property	tree rules
2	ignore	infinitive		it					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Copy from your friend forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 friend	case
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friend	nmod:poss
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Copy	obl
5	forever	forever	ADV	_	1 Copy	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	imperative	you not said here					from your friend; forever property	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Squint harder every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squint	squint	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 harder	obl:unmarked
2	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 harder	obl:unmarked

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

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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