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Test 9 · ★ · Quiet places and solemn moments

On Anzac Day in Canberra, a crowd falls silent. What should a child do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: crowd, child · What happens: fall, do

This is test 9 · ★ 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: On Anzac Day in Canberra, a crowd falls silent.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 Day	case
2	Anzac	Anzac	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Day	compound
3	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 falls	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Canberra	case
5	Canberra	Canberra	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Day	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Day	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 crowd	det
8	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 falls	nsubj
9	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 falls	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 falls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	a crowd				on Anzac Day in Canberra	silent property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on day=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.

Sentence 2: What should a child do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

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

The options

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

Stand still and stay silent too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	still	still	ADV	_	1 Stand	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 stay	cc
4	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stand	conj
5	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stay	xcomp
6	too	too	ADV	_	4 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	imperative	you not said here				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stay	infinitive	you not said here					silent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Wave at the soldiers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 soldiers	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldiers	det
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	imperative	you not said here			the soldiers			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at soldier=Location

Option 3

Ask his dad questions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 questions	nmod:poss
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 questions	compound
4	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	his dad questions					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
2	question		his = he						nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Keep playing quietly on the grass nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 playing	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 grass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grass	det
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 playing	obl
7	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	6 grass	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	play	gerund	you not said here			the grass		quietly property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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