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Test 5 · ★ · Queues, taking turns and interrupting

Two brothers argue every morning over who feeds the dog. What is a fair way out?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Two brothers · What happens: argue, feed, be · To what, where: dog, fair way

This is test 5 · ★ 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: Two brothers argue every morning over who feeds the dog.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 brothers	nummod
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 argue	nsubj
3	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 morning	det
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 argue	obl:unmarked
6	over	over	SCONJ	_	8 feeds	mark
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 feeds	nsubj
8	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 argue	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dog	det
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feeds	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 argue	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	present	Two brothers				morning		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feed	present			the dog				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient

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 fair way out?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 way	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a fair way				out property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Their parents feed the dog instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feed	nsubj
3	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feed	iobj
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 feed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	Their parents		the dog			instead property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient

Option 2

The dog decides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 decides	nsubj
3	decides	decide	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	decide	present	the dog						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The faster one always does it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 does	advmod
5	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 does	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	the faster one	it				always property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Take turns on different days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Take	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 days	case
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 days	amod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	turns			day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=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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