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Test 8 · ★ · Queues, taking turns and interrupting

Grandpa is watching the news and you want to tell him about school. What is best?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grandpa, you · What happens: watch, want, tell, be · To what, where: news, Grandpa · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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: Grandpa is watching the news and you want to tell him about school.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 watching	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 watching	aux
3	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 news	det
5	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 watching	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 want	cc
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 want	nsubj
8	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 watching	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 tell	mark
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 want	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 school	case
13	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 watching	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	present · progressive	Grandpa	the news					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme
2	want	present	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		Grandpa			about school	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about school=Topic

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 best?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 best	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 best	cop
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 best	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 · ✓ the right answer

Wait for an advert break or talk quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 advert	case
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 advert	det
4	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 break	obl
5	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	ccomp
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 talk	cc
7	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
8	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	7 talk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	break	infinitive	you not said here					for a advert	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	talk	infinitive	you not said here					quietly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Talk louder than the TV

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Talk	xcomp
3	than	than	ADP	_	5 TV	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 TV	det
5	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 louder	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	imperative	you not said here					loud property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Stand between him and the screen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	between	between	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Stand	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 screen	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 screen	det
6	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 him	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	imperative	you not said here					between him = he	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between he=Location

Option 4

Turn the TV off so he can listen properly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 TV	det
3	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turn	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	1 Turn	compound:prt
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 listen	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 listen	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 listen	aux
8	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Turn	advcl
9	properly	properly	ADV	_	8 listen	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn off	imperative	you not said here	the TV					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tv=Patient
2	listen	can	he					properly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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