Test 4 · ★ · Questions, group work and the adults at school

In a British school, what might children call their male teacher?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: children · What happens: call · To what, where: male teacher, British school · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 school	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 school	det
3	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 school	amod
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 call	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 school	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 call	obj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 call	aux
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 call	nsubj
9	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 teacher	nmod:poss
11	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 teacher	amod
12	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 call	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	might	children	children's male teacher		a British school			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme teacher=Result

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

Mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Sir

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Teacher Smith

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teacher	Teacher	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Teacher	flat

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

His first name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 name	nmod:poss
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 name	amod
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name		His = he						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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