Test 11 · ★ · Wind, fog, wildfire, tsunami and the seasons
told to evacuate, but i left my teddy upstairs!
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i · What happens: tell, evacuate, leave · To what, where: teddy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 236 «Wind, fog, wildfire, tsunami and the seasons» 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 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 evacuate | mark |
| 3 | evacuate | evacuate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 told | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 left | cc |
| 6 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 left | nsubj |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 told | ccomp |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 teddy | nmod:poss |
| 9 | teddy | teddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obj |
| 10 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 7 left | advmod |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 told | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | participle | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | evacuate not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | leave | past | i | my teddy | upstairs property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teddy=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Ask a firefighter to wait
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 firefighter | det |
| 3 | firefighter | firefighter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ask | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 wait | mark |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ask | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | a firefighter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent firefighter=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wait not said to happen | to-infinitive | a firefighter not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Wait in the house for help
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 house | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 help | case |
| 6 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | the house | for help | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Leave without it, never go back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | without | without | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Leave | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 go | advmod |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Leave | conj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | without it | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not go back | infinitive | you not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Run back quickly and get it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Run | advmod |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 1 Run | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 get | cc |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Run | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 get | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run back | imperative | you not said here | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | you not said here | it | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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