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Test 2 · ★ · Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles

A girl in Belfast carries six plates and a bowl at once and drops them. What would have worked better?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: carry, drop, work · To what, where: six plates, plates

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 218 «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» 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 Belfast carries six plates and a bowl at once and drops them.

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 carries	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Belfast	case
4	Belfast	Belfast	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 plates	nummod
7	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carries	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bowl	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bowl	det
10	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plates	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 carries	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 drops	cc
14	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 carries	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 drops	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 carries	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	a girl in Belfast	six plates and a bowl					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Theme
2	drop	present	a girl in Belfast not said here	plates = plate					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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 would have worked better?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 worked	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 worked	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 worked	aux
4	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 worked	xcomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 worked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	would · perfect						good property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent what=Material

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Carrying a few plates at a time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 plates	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plates	amod
4	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Carrying	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Carrying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund		a few plates			time		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Theme

Option 2

Holding them with one hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Holding	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 hand	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hand	nummod
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Holding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	gerund		them = they				with one hand	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

Carrying them faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Carrying	obj
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Carrying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund		them = they				fast property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

Asking someone to open the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Asking	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 open	mark
4	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Asking	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 open	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund		someone					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient clause=Topic
2	open not said to happen	to-infinitive	someone not said here	the door					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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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