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Test 6 · ★ · Queues, taking turns and interrupting

In a class discussion, Tom always speaks first and longest. What would be fairer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tom · What happens: speak, be · To what, where: class discussion · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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: In a class discussion, Tom always speaks first and longest.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 discussion	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 discussion	det
3	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 discussion	compound
4	discussion	discussion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 speaks	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 discussion	punct
6	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 speaks	nsubj
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 speaks	advmod
8	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 speaks	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 longest	cc
11	longest	long	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 speaks	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 speaks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present	Tom			a class discussion		always, first, long property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 be fairer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 fairer	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fairer	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 fairer	cop
4	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fairer	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Answering for the whole class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Answering	answer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 class	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 class	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 class	amod
5	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Answering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	gerund						for the whole class	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Staying silent for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Staying	xcomp
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 ever	case
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	1 Staying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	gerund						silent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Letting others speak and waiting his turn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 speak	nsubj
3	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Letting	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 waiting	cc
5	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Letting	conj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 turn	nmod:poss
7	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waiting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	gerund							tree rules
2	speak speech: other	infinitive	others						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wait	gerund		his turn					tree rules

Option 4

Speaking even louder so that everyone can hear him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 hear	csubj
2	even	even	ADV	_	3 louder	advmod
3	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Speaking	xcomp
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	6 everyone	case
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 so	fixed
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Speaking	obl
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hear	aux
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund						so everyone; loud property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	can	Speaking	him = he					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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