Test 3 · ★ · Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters
A boy in Wellington says rainy days are useless without a tablet. What is a good idea?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, rainy days · What happens: say, be · To what, where: good idea · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 213 «Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters» 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 in Wellington says rainy days are useless without a tablet.
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 | 5 says | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Wellington | case |
| 4 | Wellington | Wellington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | rainy | rainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 days | amod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 useless | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 useless | cop |
| 9 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 says | ccomp |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 tablet | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tablet | det |
| 12 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 useless | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a boy in Wellington | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | rainy days | without a tablet; useless property | tree rules |
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 a good idea?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 idea | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 idea | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 idea | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 idea | amod |
| 5 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 idea | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a good idea | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Use the time to build, read, draw or cook something
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Use | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 build | mark |
| 5 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Use | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 read | punct |
| 7 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 build | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 draw | punct |
| 9 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Use | conj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 cook | cc |
| 11 | cook | cook | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Use | conj |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 cook | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | imperative | you not said here | time | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | build | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | read | infinitive | you not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | draw | infinitive | you not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | cook | infinitive | you not said here | something | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
Option 2
Sleep until the rain stops
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stops | nsubj |
| 2 | until | until | ADP | _ | 4 rain | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rain | det |
| 4 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sleep | nmod |
| 5 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | Sleep until the rain | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 3
Complain until it is sunny
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Complain | complain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 5 sunny | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sunny | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sunny | cop |
| 5 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Complain | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complain speech: other | imperative | you not said here | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | it | sunny property | tree rules |
Option 4
Stare out the window all day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stare | stare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Stare | compound:prt |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 window | det |
| 4 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stare | obj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stare | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare out | imperative | you not said here | the window | day | 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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