Test 6 · ★ · Questions, group work and the adults at school
A boy in Phoenix feels ill after lunch and wants to call his dad. Where should he go?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: feel, want, call, go · To what, where: dad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A boy in Phoenix feels ill after lunch and wants to call his dad.
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 feels | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Phoenix | case |
| 4 | Phoenix | Phoenix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feels | xcomp |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 lunch | case |
| 8 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feels | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wants | cc |
| 10 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feels | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 call | mark |
| 12 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wants | xcomp |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 dad | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 call | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 feels | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | a boy in Phoenix | after lunch | ill property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | want | present | a boy in Phoenix not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | call not said to happen | to-infinitive | a boy in Phoenix not said here | boy's dad | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=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.
Sentence 2: Where should he go?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 go | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | should | boy | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
The bike shed, where it is quiet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shed | det |
| 2 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shed | compound |
| 3 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 quiet | punct |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 quiet | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 quiet | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 quiet | cop |
| 8 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shed | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | shed | quiet property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Back to class to keep it quiet and say nothing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Back | back | ADV | _ | 5 keep | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 class | mark |
| 3 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Back | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 keep | mark |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 keep | obj |
| 7 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 keep | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 say | cc |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 keep | conj |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 say | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | to-infinitive | class | quiet property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The school office or the nurse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 office | det |
| 2 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 office | compound |
| 3 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 nurse | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nurse | det |
| 6 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 office | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The playground to wait for his dad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 playground | det |
| 2 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 wait | mark |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 playground | acl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 dad | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 dad | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wait | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | to-infinitive | for his dad | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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