Test 1 · ★ · Running games and the playground
Your mum said to be home at six, and the game is exciting at five to six. What should you do?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, game, you · What happens: say, be, do · To what, where: six, five · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 247 «Running games and the playground» 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 mum said to be home at six, and the game is exciting at five to six.
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 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 home | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 home | cop |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 six | case |
| 8 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 exciting | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 exciting | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 game | det |
| 12 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 exciting | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 exciting | cop |
| 14 | exciting | exciting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | parataxis |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 five | case |
| 16 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 exciting | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 six | case |
| 18 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 five | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Your mum | six | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | home property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the game | five to six | exciting property | tree rules |
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 should you do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1
Stay until it gets dark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 4 gets | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gets | nsubj |
| 4 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stay | advcl |
| 5 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gets | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | present | it | dark property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Go home at the agreed time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | home | home | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | time | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | participle | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Stay ten more minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 minutes | amod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Stay | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | minute | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Ask a friend to phone mum
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 friend | det |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ask | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 phone | mark |
| 5 | phone | phone | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ask | xcomp |
| 6 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 phone | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | a friend | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | phone not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | mum | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |
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