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Test 9 · ★ · Queues, taking turns and interrupting

Lucy's dad feels her hand on his arm while he talks. What does it tell him?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, hand · What happens: feel, talk, tell · To what, where: hand, arm, dad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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: Lucy's dad feels her hand on his arm while he talks.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lucy	Lucy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Lucy	case
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feels	nsubj
4	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hand	nmod:poss
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feels	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 arm	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 arm	nmod:poss
9	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feels	obl
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 talks	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 talks	nsubj
12	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 feels	advcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 feels	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	Lucy's dad	Lucy's hand		dad's arm			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on arm=Location
2	talk	present	dad						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 does it tell him?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	hand		dad				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

She is waiting to say something

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 waiting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 waiting	aux
3	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 waiting	xcomp
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present · progressive	She						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	She not said here	something					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic

Option 2

She wants him to go home right now, this minute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	right	right	ADV	_	8 now	advmod
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 go	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 minute	punct
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 minute	det
11	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	She	him = he					tree rules
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here				now; minute	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She wants to hold hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hold	mark
4	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	She						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hold not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	hands					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme

Option 4

She is upset with him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 upset	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 upset	cop
3	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 upset	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					with him = he; upset property	tree rules

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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