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Test 7 · Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles

A grandma in Dublin knits with her grandson. Why do they count the needles at the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grandma, they · What happens: knit, count · To what, where: needles, end

This is test 7 of lesson 245 «Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles» 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 grandma in Dublin knits with her grandson.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 grandma	det
2	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knits	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Dublin	case
4	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 grandma	nmod
5	knits	knit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 grandson	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 grandson	nmod:poss
8	grandson	grandson	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knits	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 knits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knit	present	a grandma in Dublin					with grandma's grandson	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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: Why do they count the needles at the end?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 count	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 count	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 count	nsubj
4	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 needles	det
6	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 count	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 count	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 count	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present · do-support	they	the needles			at the end		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Because needles go missing at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 go	mark
2	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	nsubj
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 go	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	needles				night	missing property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

So they know how many more needles to buy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 know	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 needles	amod
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 needles	amod
7	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 know	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 buy	mark
9	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 know	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	they	many more needles					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer needle=Stimulus
2	buy	to-infinitive	they not said here						vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

To check that none of the needles have grown longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 check	mark
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 grown	mark
4	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	9 grown	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 needles	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 needles	det
7	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 none	nmod
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 grown	aux
9	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 check	ccomp
10	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 grown	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive							tree rules
2	grow	present · perfect	none					long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

So none are left out to prick people or pets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 left	advmod
2	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	4 left	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 left	aux:pass
4	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 left	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 prick	mark
7	prick	prick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 left	advcl
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 prick	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 pets	cc
10	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 people	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave out	present · passive		none					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	prick	to-infinitive		people or pets					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient

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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