Test 2 · ★ · Getting ready for school and the school day
A boy in Canberra forgot to check his timetable and has no swimming kit on swimming day. What habit would help?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, swimming kit · What happens: forget, not check, have, swim, help · To what, where: timetable, swimming kit
This is test 2 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A boy in Canberra forgot to check his timetable and has no swimming kit on swimming day.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forgot | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Canberra | case |
| 4 | Canberra | Canberra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 check | mark |
| 7 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 forgot | xcomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 timetable | nmod:poss |
| 9 | timetable | timetable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 check | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 has | cc |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 forgot | conj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 kit | det |
| 13 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kit | compound |
| 14 | kit | kit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 has | obj |
| 15 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 16 swimming | mark |
| 16 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 kit | acl |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swimming | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 forgot | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | a boy in Canberra | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not check | to-infinitive | a boy in Canberra not said here | boy's timetable | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent timetable=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | a boy in Canberra not said here | no swimming kit | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kit=Patient | ||||
| 4 | swim | gerund | no swimming kit not said here | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 habit would help?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 help | nsubj |
| 2 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 help | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | would | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Bringing every kit every day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 kit | det |
| 3 | kit | kit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bringing | obj |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bringing | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | gerund | every kit | day | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent kit=Theme |
Option 2
Never doing swimming again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 doing | advmod |
| 2 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 doing | advcl |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 swimming | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | gerund | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | swim | gerund | again | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Checking the timetable the night before
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Checking | check | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 timetable | det |
| 3 | timetable | timetable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Checking | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 night | det |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Checking | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | before | before | ADV | _ | 1 Checking | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | gerund | the timetable | night | before property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent timetable=Theme |
Option 4
Asking the teacher to cancel swimming for the whole class
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 teacher | det |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Asking | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 cancel | mark |
| 5 | cancel | cancel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Asking | xcomp |
| 6 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 cancel | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 class | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 class | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 class | amod |
| 10 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swimming | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the teacher | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | cancel not said to happen | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | swim | gerund | for the whole class | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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