Test 5 · ★ · Quiet places and solemn moments
Why should you stay seated and quiet in a hospital?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: stay, seat · To what, where: hospital
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 224 «Quiet places and solemn moments» 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 stay | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stay | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 stay | nsubj |
| 4 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stay | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 quiet | cc |
| 7 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 seated | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hospital | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hospital | det |
| 10 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seated | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 stay | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | should | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | seat | participle | you not said here | a hospital | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in hospital=Location |
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.
The options
Option 1
Doctors there cannot hear the radio
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 hear | expl |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hear | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 hear | advmod |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 radio | det |
| 7 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hear | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | can | Doctors | the radio | there | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer radio=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Patients may be ill or worried
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Patients | patient | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ill | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ill | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ill | cop |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 worried | cc |
| 6 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ill | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | Patients | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Patients not said here | tree rules |
Option 3
Loud noise breaks the hospital machines
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 noise | amod |
| 2 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 breaks | nsubj |
| 3 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 machines | det |
| 5 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 machines | compound |
| 6 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 breaks | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present | Loud noise | the hospital machines | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer machine=Patient |
Option 4
It makes the queue move a lot faster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 queue | det |
| 4 | queue | queue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 5 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lot | det |
| 7 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 move | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 makes | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | It | the queue | fast property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | move | present | the queue not said here | a lot | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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