Test 3 · ★ · Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes
Ali is at a friend's house and wants to open the fridge for a drink. What is better?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ali · What happens: be, want, open · To what, where: house, fridge
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 222 «Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes» 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: Ali is at a friend's house and wants to open the fridge for a drink.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 house | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 house | cop |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 friend | det |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 friend | case |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wants | cc |
| 9 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 house | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 open | mark |
| 11 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wants | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fridge | det |
| 13 | fridge | fridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 open | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 drink | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 drink | det |
| 16 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 open | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 house | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Ali | a friend's house | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | present | Ali not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | open not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ali not said here | the fridge | for a drink | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fridge=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 is better?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 better | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | cop |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | good property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Wait until nobody is looking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 5 looking | mark |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 looking | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 looking | aux |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Wait | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | present · progressive | nobody | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
Help himself, as friends share
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Help | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 share | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 share | mark |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 share | nsubj |
| 6 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Help | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | imperative | you not said here | himself = he | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | share | present | friends | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Ask the adult or his friend first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 adult | det |
| 3 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ask | obj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 friend | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 friend | nmod:poss |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 adult | conj |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 1 Ask | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | the adult or his friend | first property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
Option 4
Open every cupboard to find a cup
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 cupboard | det |
| 3 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Open | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Open | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cup | det |
| 7 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | imperative | you not said here | every cupboard | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cupboard=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | you not said here | a cup | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Topic |
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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