Test 9 · ★ · Questions, group work and the adults at school
Your partner in Edinburgh gets an answer wrong and looks embarrassed. Why help kindly?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: partner, you · What happens: get, look, help · To what, where: answer
This is test 9 · ★ 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: Your partner in Edinburgh gets an answer wrong and looks embarrassed.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 partner | nmod:poss |
| 2 | partner | partner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Edinburgh | case |
| 4 | Edinburgh | Edinburgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 partner | nmod |
| 5 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 answer | det |
| 7 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gets | obj |
| 8 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gets | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looks | cc |
| 10 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gets | conj |
| 11 | embarrassed | embarrassed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 looks | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Your partner in Edinburgh | a answer | wrong property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | look | present | Your partner in Edinburgh not said here | embarrassed 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: Why help kindly?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 help | advmod |
| 2 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 2 help | advmod |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | imperative | you not said here | kindly property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
They will give you their answers later
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 answers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 give | obj |
| 7 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 give | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | They | their answers | you | late property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient answer=Theme | ||
| 2 | answer | their = they | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
It is the only way to finish quickly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 way | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 finish | mark |
| 7 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 way | acl |
| 8 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 7 finish | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | the only way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | finish | to-infinitive | quickly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 3
Kind help makes the teacher give you a prize
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 help | amod |
| 2 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 teacher | det |
| 5 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | obj |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 makes | xcomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 prize | det |
| 9 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Kind help | the teacher | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | the teacher not said here | a prize | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient prize=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Kind help makes them willing to keep trying
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 help | amod |
| 2 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 makes | obj |
| 5 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 makes | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 willing | xcomp |
| 8 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 keep | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Kind help | them = they | willing property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | them = they not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | try | gerund | them = they not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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