Test 14 · ★ · Questions, group work and the adults at school
dunno how to do this but don't wanna look dumb asking
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: dunno, do, not look, ask · To what, where: this
This is test 14 · ★ 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 | dunno | dunno | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 do | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 dunno | ccomp |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 look | cc |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 look | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 look | advmod |
| 9 | wanna | wanna | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 look | dep |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 dunno | conj |
| 11 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 look | xcomp |
| 12 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 look | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dunno | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | you not said here | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not look | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | dumb property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | gerund | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Ask the teacher, small gaps grow big
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 teacher | det |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ask | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 grow | punct |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gaps | amod |
| 6 | gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grow | nsubj |
| 7 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ask | advcl |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grow | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | the teacher | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | small gaps | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Just guess and move on, nobody will notice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 guess | advmod |
| 2 | guess | guess | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 move | cc |
| 4 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 guess | conj |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 move | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 notice | punct |
| 7 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 notice | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 notice | aux |
| 9 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 guess | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | imperative | you not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | move on | infinitive | you not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | notice | future | nobody | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
Copy your neighbour, nobody will ever know
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Copy | copy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 3 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Copy | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 5 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 know | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | aux |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 know | advmod |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Copy | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | imperative | you not said here | your neighbour | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | future | nobody | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
Wait for next year when it gets explained again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 year | case |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 year | amod |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 explained | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 explained | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 explained | aux:pass |
| 8 | explained | explain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 explained | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | year | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | present · passive | it | again | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school/t14/