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Test 9 · ★ · Rain, floods and storms

A boy in Ireland wants to run to the end of a rainbow. What is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: want, run, be

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 235 «Rain, floods and storms» 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 boy in Ireland wants to run to the end of a rainbow.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wants	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ireland	case
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 run	mark
7	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wants	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 run	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 rainbow	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 rainbow	det
13	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 end	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	a boy in Ireland						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	run not said to happen	to-infinitive	a boy in Ireland not said here				to the end of a rainbow		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to end=Result

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 only a few streets away from him

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	6 streets	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 streets	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 streets	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 streets	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 streets	amod
6	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 streets	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a few streets				away property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He can never reach it, because it moves as he moves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reach	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 reach	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 reach	advmod
4	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reach	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 moves	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 moves	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 moves	nsubj
9	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reach	advcl
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 moves	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 moves	nsubj
12	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 moves	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not reach	can	He	it					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	move	present	it						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	move	present	he						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He will find it waiting at the bottom of the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 find	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 find	obj
5	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 find	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 bottom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bottom	det
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waiting	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 hill	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hill	det
11	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bottom	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	future	He	it					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme
2	wait	gerund				the bottom of the hill			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bottom=Location

Option 4

He can reach it if the rain keeps falling long enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reach	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 reach	aux
3	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reach	obj
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 keeps	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rain	det
7	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keeps	nsubj
8	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reach	advcl
9	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keeps	xcomp
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 falling	advmod
11	enough	enough	ADV	_	9 falling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	can	He	it					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	present	the rain						tree rules
3	fall	gerund	the rain not said here					enough, long property	vn occur-48.3 «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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