Test 13 · ★ · Questions, group work and the adults at school
presenting to the class tmrw, scared. tips?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: present · To what, where: class tmrw
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 256 «Questions, group work and the adults at school» 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 | presenting | present | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 tips | compound |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 tmrw | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tmrw | det |
| 4 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tmrw | compound |
| 5 | tmrw | tmrw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 presenting | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 scared | punct |
| 7 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tmrw | amod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 presenting | punct |
| 9 | tips | tip | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 tips | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | gerund | the class tmrw | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to tmrw=Recipient |
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
Look at the floor the whole time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 floor | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 floor | det |
| 4 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | time | at the floor | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at floor=Theme |
Option 2
Read very fast so you finish as quickly as you can
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Read | read | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 fast | advmod |
| 3 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Read | advmod |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 finish | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 finish | nsubj |
| 6 | finish | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Read | advcl |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 quickly | advmod |
| 8 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 6 finish | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 can | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 can | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 finish | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | imperative | you not said here | fast property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | finish | present | you | quickly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 3
Whisper so nobody hears mistakes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whisper | whisper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 4 hears | mark |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 hears | nsubj |
| 4 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Whisper | acl |
| 5 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hears | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | nobody | mistakes | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mistake=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Practise first, speak slowly, look at the audience
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Practise | practise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speak | nsubj |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 1 Practise | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 speak | punct |
| 4 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 4 speak | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 look | punct |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 speak | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 audience | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 audience | det |
| 10 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | infinitive | Practise | slowly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | Practise not said here | at the audience | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at audience=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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