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Test 5 · ★ · Classroom rules and homework

Two months after arriving, a boy from Poland understands much more English. What helped most?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: arrive, understand, help · To what, where: most

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 254 «Classroom rules and homework» 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: Two months after arriving, a boy from Poland understands much more English.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 months	nummod
2	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 after	obl:unmarked
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	4 arriving	mark
4	arriving	arrive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 understands	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 arriving	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 understands	nsubj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 Poland	case
9	Poland	Poland	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 boy	nmod
10	understands	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	much	much	ADV	_	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 English	nsubj
13	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 understands	parataxis
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 understands	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	gerund	a boy from Poland not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	understand	present	a boy from Poland						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 helped most?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 helped	nsubj
2	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 helped	obj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 helped	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Nobody talking to him so he had to listen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 had	nsubj
2	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Nobody	acl
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talking	obl
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 had	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 listen	mark
9	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	gerund			him = he				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
2	have	past	Nobody						tree rules
3	listen	to-infinitive	Nobody not said here						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Classmates who were patient and spoke slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Classmates	classmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 patient	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 patient	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 patient	cop
4	patient	patient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 spoke	cc
6	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 patient	conj
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	6 spoke	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Classmates					patient property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	past	Classmates not said here					slowly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Classmates who laughed whenever he got a word wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Classmates	classmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laughed	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 laughed	nsubj
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 got	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obj
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	Classmates						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	past	he	a word				whenever, wrong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus

Option 4

Everyone speaking faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	root	root
2	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Everyone	acl
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 speaking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund						fast property	vn talk-37.5 «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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