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Test 8 · ★ · Tests, exams and mistakes

A boy in Ottawa knocks a plant pot off the window sill and soil spills everywhere. Why should he tell the teacher at once?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: knock, tell · To what, where: plant pot, teacher · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 255 «Tests, exams and mistakes» 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 Ottawa knocks a plant pot off the window sill and soil spills everywhere.

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 knocks	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ottawa	case
4	Ottawa	Ottawa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	knocks	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pot	det
7	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pot	compound
8	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knocks	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	12 sill	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sill	det
11	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sill	compound
12	sill	sill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knocks	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 spills	cc
14	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spills	compound
15	spills	spill	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sill	conj
16	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 spills	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 knocks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	present	a boy in Ottawa	a plant pot				off the window sill and soil spills	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent pot=Patient off sill=Co-Patient

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 should he tell the teacher at once?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 tell	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 teacher	det
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 tell	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	should	boy		the teacher				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient

The options

Option 1

Otherwise the plant will grow back wrong and crooked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	5 grow	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 plant	det
3	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grow	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	aux
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 grow	advmod
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grow	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 crooked	cc
9	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wrong	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	future	the plant					otherwise, wrong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It can be cleaned safely, and owning up is respected

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cleaned	nsubj:pass
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cleaned	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 cleaned	aux:pass
4	cleaned	clean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	safely	safely	ADV	_	4 cleaned	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 respected	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 respected	cc
8	owning	own	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 respected	csubj:pass
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 owning	compound:prt
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 respected	aux:pass
11	respected	respect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cleaned	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	can · passive		It				safely property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	own up	gerund							vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
3	respect	present · passive	owning						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»

Option 3

The teacher can find somebody else to blame for the mess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 find	obj
6	else	else	ADV	_	5 somebody	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 blame	mark
8	blame	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 find	ccomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 mess	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mess	det
11	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blame	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	can	the teacher	somebody					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent somebody=Attribute clause=Theme
2	blame	to-infinitive						for the mess	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for mess=Attribute

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He will be given a reward for breaking it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 given	nsubj:pass
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 given	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 given	aux:pass
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 reward	det
6	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obj
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 breaking	mark
8	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 given	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 breaking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	future · passive		He					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient reward=Theme
2	break	gerund		reward					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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