Test 1 · ★ · Queues, taking turns and interrupting
A girl in Dallas arrives at a busy ice-cream van. Where should she go?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: arrive, go · To what, where: busy cream van
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 223 «Queues, taking turns and interrupting» 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 Dallas arrives at a busy ice-cream van.
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 arrives | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Dallas | case |
| 4 | Dallas | Dallas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | arrives | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 van | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 van | det |
| 8 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 van | amod |
| 9 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cream | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ice | punct |
| 11 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 van | compound |
| 12 | van | van | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrives | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrives | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | present | a girl in Dallas | a busy cream van | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: Where should she go?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 go | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | should | girl | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Next to her friend near the front
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 4 friend | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 friend | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friend | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 front | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 front | det |
| 7 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 friend | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
To the end of the line
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 line | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 line | det |
| 6 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Straight over to the window
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Straight | straight | ADV | _ | 2 over | advmod |
| 2 | over | over | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 window | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 window | det |
| 5 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 over | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
In front of the smallest child
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 front | case |
| 2 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 child | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 5 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 child | amod |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 front | nmod |
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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