Test 16 · ★ · Getting ready for school and the school day

no time for brekkie, i'll just eat at lunch

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i · What happens: eat · To what, where: lunch

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 253 «Getting ready for school and the school day» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eat	obl:unmarked
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 brekkie	case
4	brekkie	brekkie	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 time	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 time	punct
6	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 eat	nsubj
7	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 eat	aux
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 eat	advmod
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 lunch	case
11	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	future	i			lunch	time		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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.

The options

Option 1

Fine, have sweets on the walk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Fine	conj
4	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 walk	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 walk	det
7	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present		sweets		the walk			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Grab something quick, your body needs fuel to think

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Grab	obj
3	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 something	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 needs	punct
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 body	nmod:poss
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needs	nsubj
7	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Grab	parataxis
8	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needs	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 think	mark
10	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 needs	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	grab	imperative	you not said here	something	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
2	need	present	your body	fuel	tree rules
3	think speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	fuel not said here		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Have a can of energy drink instead, that's even better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 drink	det
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 drink	aux
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 drink	case
5	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drink	compound
6	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Have	obj
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Have	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 better	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 better	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 better	cop
11	even	even	ADV	_	12 better	advmod
12	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Have	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	imperative	you not said here	a energy drink				instead property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient
2	is	present	that					good property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Fine, kids don't need breakfast, only grown-ups do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kids	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fine	punct
3	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 need	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 need	advmod
6	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	12 ups	advmod
10	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 ups	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 grown	punct
12	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 need	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not need	present · do-support	Fine kids	breakfast	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot breakfast=Theme
2	grow	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	present	grown ups		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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