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Test 6 · ★ · Quiet places and solemn moments

A sign at a science museum says "Please touch". What is true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: sign · What happens: say, touch, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A sign at a science museum says "Please touch".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sign	det
2	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 museum	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 museum	det
5	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 museum	compound
6	museum	museum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sign	nmod
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 touch	punct
9	Please	please	INTJ	_	10 touch	discourse
10	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 touch	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a sign at a science museum						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	touch in a quote	infinitive							vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1

It is a trick to catch children

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	4 trick	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 trick	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 trick	det
4	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 catch	mark
6	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trick	acl
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a trick					tree rules
2	catch	to-infinitive		children					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme

Option 2

You must still never touch it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 touch	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 touch	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	5 touch	advmod
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 touch	advmod
5	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	must	You	it			still		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

Option 3

Only adults may touch it gently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 adults	advmod
2	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 touch	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 touch	aux
4	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 touch	obj
6	gently	gently	ADV	_	4 touch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	may	adults	it				gently property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

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

You may touch that exhibit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 touch	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 touch	aux
3	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 exhibit	det
5	exhibit	exhibit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	may	You	that exhibit					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme exhibit=Co-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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