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Test 8 · ★ · Questions, group work and the adults at school

Before giving a talk, a boy in Auckland feels very nervous. What helps him most?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: give, feel, help · To what, where: talk, boy

This is test 8 · ★ 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: Before giving a talk, a boy in Auckland feels very nervous.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Before	before	SCONJ	_	2 giving	mark
2	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 feels	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 talk	det
4	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 giving	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 giving	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feels	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Auckland	case
9	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 boy	nmod
10	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 nervous	advmod
12	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feels	xcomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 feels	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	gerund	a boy in Auckland not said here	a talk					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Theme
2	feel	present	a boy in Auckland					nervous property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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: What helps him most?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 helps	obj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 helps	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 helps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present			boy				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Looking only at the floor so he does not see faces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 faces	amod
2	only	only	ADV	_	5 floor	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 floor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 floor	det
5	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 see	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 see	advmod
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Looking	advcl
11	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund						at the floor	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at floor=Theme
2	not see	present · do-support	he						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Whispering so nobody can hear mistakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whispering	whisper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 hear	csubj
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	3 nobody	case
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Whispering	obl
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	aux
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	gerund						so nobody	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	can	Whispering	mistakes					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mistake=Stimulus

Option 3

Talking very fast to get it over with

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 fast	advmod
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Talking	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 get	mark
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Talking	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 get	obj
7	over	over	ADP	_	5 get	compound:prt
8	with	with	ADP	_	5 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	gerund						fast property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get over	to-infinitive		it					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Practising the talk beforehand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Practising	practise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 talk	det
3	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Practising	obj
4	beforehand	beforehand	ADV	_	1 Practising	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	practise	gerund		the talk				beforehand property	tree rules

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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