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Test 2 · ★ · Litter and caring for nature

Your school wants to release 100 balloons for its birthday. What would be kinder to nature?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: school · What happens: want, release, be · To what, where: 100 balloons

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 239 «Litter and caring for nature» 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: Your school wants to release 100 balloons for its birthday.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 school	nmod:poss
2	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 release	mark
5	release	release	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wants	xcomp
6	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 balloons	nummod
7	balloons	balloon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 release	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 birthday	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 birthday	nmod:poss
10	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 release	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Your school						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	release not said to happen	to-infinitive	Your school not said here	100 balloons				for school's birthday	vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer balloon=Source

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 would be kinder to nature?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 kinder	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 kinder	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 kinder	cop
4	kinder	kind	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 nature	mark
6	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kinder	advcl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 kinder	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would						kind property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Use bigger balloons that fly higher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 balloons	amod
3	balloons	balloon	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Use	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 fly	nsubj
5	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 balloons	acl:relcl
6	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 fly	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	bigger balloons					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balloon=Patient
2	fly	present	bigger balloons					high property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Something else, like planting trees, because balloons become litter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	else	else	ADV	_	1 Something	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 trees	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 trees	case
5	planting	plant	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 trees	amod
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Something	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 become	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 become	mark
9	balloons	balloon	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 become	nsubj
10	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Something	parataxis
11	litter	litter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	gerund							vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	become	present	balloons	litter					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Let them go at night, when all the animals are asleep and safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 asleep	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 asleep	mark
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 animals	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 animals	det
10	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 asleep	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 asleep	cop
12	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Let	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 safe	cc
14	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 asleep	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	them = they					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	them = they not said here				night		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	all animals					asleep property	tree rules
4	be		all animals not said here						tree rules

Option 4

Let them go over the sea, where they will sink and disappear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sink	punct
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 sink	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sink	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 sink	aux
11	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 disappear	cc
13	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sink	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	them = they					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	them = they not said here			the sea			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over sea=Initial_Location
3	sink	future	they						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	disappear	infinitive	they not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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