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Test 8 · ★ · Quiet places and solemn moments

At a funeral in Cork, a girl is not sure when to sit or stand. What should she do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: not be, sit, stand, do · To what, where: funeral

This is test 8 · ★ 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: At a funeral in Cork, a girl is not sure when to sit or stand.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 funeral	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 funeral	det
3	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sure	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Cork	case
5	Cork	Cork	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 funeral	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 funeral	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sure	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sure	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 sure	advmod
11	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 sit	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 sit	mark
14	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sure	ccomp
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 stand	cc
16	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sit	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	a girl			a funeral in Cork		sure property	tree rules
2	sit	to-infinitive	a girl not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stand	infinitive	a girl not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «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 should she do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	girl						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Follow the family's lead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 family	det
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lead	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 family	case
5	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Follow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	imperative	you not said here	the family's lead					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lead=Theme

Option 2

Stand up the whole time, just in case

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Stand	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stand	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 case	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 case	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 case	case
9	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stand	obl

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

Option 3

Ask loudly what to do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 Ask	advmod
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here					loudly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

Option 4

Leave early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here					early property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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