Test 9 · ★★ · The sea, waves and swimming pools
pool's slippery, race u to the slide!!
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: pool · What happens: race
This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 233 «The sea, waves and swimming pools» 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 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 race | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 pool | case |
| 3 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 race | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 race | punct |
| 5 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | u | you | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 race | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 slide | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 slide | det |
| 9 | slide | slide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 race | nmod |
| 10 | !! | !! | PUNCT | _ | 5 race | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | race | pool | to the slide | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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
Yes, run fast so you don't slip
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 run | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 run | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 9 slip | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 slip | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 slip | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 slip | advmod |
| 9 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 run | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | imperative | you not said here | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not slip | present · do-support | you | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 2
Only race near the deep end
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 race | advmod |
| 2 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 end | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 end | det |
| 5 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 end | amod |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 race | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Run on tiptoes, it's safer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 tiptoes | case |
| 3 | tiptoes | tiptoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Run | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 safer | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 safer | expl |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 safer | cop |
| 7 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Run | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | imperative | you not said here | tiptoes | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tiptoe=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | present | safe property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No running, walk by the pool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 running | det |
| 2 | running | running | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walk | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 running | punct |
| 4 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 pool | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pool | det |
| 7 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walk | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | infinitive | no running | by the pool | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by pool=Trajectory |
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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