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Test 1 · ★ · Puzzles, money and video games

A girl in Sydney is stuck on a puzzle with 1000 pieces of blue sky. What can help her most?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: stick, help · To what, where: girl, puzzle

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 243 «Puzzles, money and video games» 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 girl in Sydney is stuck on a puzzle with 1000 pieces of blue sky.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stuck	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Sydney	case
4	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stuck	aux:pass
6	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 puzzle	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 puzzle	det
9	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stuck	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 pieces	case
11	1000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 pieces	nummod
12	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stuck	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 sky	case
14	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sky	amod
15	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pieces	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	present · passive		a girl in Sydney		a puzzle		with 1000 pieces of blue sky	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with piece=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.

Sentence 2: What can help her most?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 help	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 help	aux
3	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 help	obj
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 help	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	can			girl				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

The options

Option 1

Giving up, because big puzzles are impossible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Giving	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 impossible	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 impossible	mark
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 puzzles	amod
6	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 impossible	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 impossible	cop
8	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Giving	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	gerund							vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	big puzzles					impossible property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Forcing pieces together until they fit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forcing	force	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Forcing	obj
3	together	together	ADV	_	1 Forcing	advmod
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	6 fit	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fit	nsubj
6	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Forcing	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	force	gerund		pieces				together property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Recipient
2	fit	present	pieces = piece						vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Doing the whole puzzle upside down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 upside	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 upside	amod
4	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 upside	compound
5	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Doing	obj
6	down	down	ADV	_	1 Doing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	gerund		the whole puzzle upside				down property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upside=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A method: edges first, then group by colour and shape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 method	det
2	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 edges	punct
4	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 method	conj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 edges	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 group	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 group	advmod
8	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 method	conj
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 colour	case
10	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 group	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shape	cc
12	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 method	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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