Test 11 · ★ · Teachers, visitors and the playground
bell rang but i'm nearly winning!
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bell, i · What happens: ring, win
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 257 «Teachers, visitors and the playground» 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 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rang | nsubj |
| 2 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 winning | cc |
| 4 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 winning | nsubj |
| 5 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 winning | aux |
| 6 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 7 winning | advmod |
| 7 | winning | win | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 rang | conj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 rang | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | past | bell | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | win | present · progressive | i | nearly property | vn succeed-74-2 «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
Ask the teacher for five more minutes
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 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 minutes | case |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 minutes | nummod |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 minutes | amod |
| 7 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ask | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | the teacher | minute | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |
Option 2
Finish the game first, it's nearly over
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finish | finish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 game | det |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Finish | obj |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 1 Finish | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finish | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 over | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 over | cop |
| 8 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 9 over | advmod |
| 9 | over | over | ADV | _ | 1 Finish | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | imperative | you not said here | the game | first property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality game=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | present | game | nearly, over property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Stop playing and line up straight away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Stop | xcomp |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 line | cc |
| 4 | line | line | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stop | conj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 line | compound:prt |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 7 away | advmod |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 line | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | imperative | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | play | gerund | you not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | line up | present | you not said here | away property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Ignore the bell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ignore | ignore | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bell | det |
| 3 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ignore | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ignore | imperative | you not said here | the bell | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Theme |
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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