Test 16 · ★ · Teachers, visitors and the playground

Why do school visitors sign in at the office?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: school visitors · What happens: sign in · To what, where: office

This is test 16 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 sign	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sign	aux
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 visitors	compound
4	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sign	nsubj
5	sign	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	5 sign	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 office	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 office	det
9	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sign	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sign	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sign in	present · do-support	school visitors			the office			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent at office=Destination

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

So they can get a free school lunch in the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lunch	det
6	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lunch	amod
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lunch	compound
8	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 hall	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hall	det
11	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	can	they	a free school lunch		the hall			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lunch=Stimulus

Option 2

To borrow books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 borrow	mark
2	borrow	borrow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 borrow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	borrow	to-infinitive		books					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

So the school knows who is there and keeps children safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 knows	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 school	det
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knows	nsubj
4	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 there	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 there	cop
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 knows	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 keeps	cc
9	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 knows	conj
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keeps	obj
11	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	the school			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present			there property	tree rules
3	keep	present	the school not said here	children	safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme

Option 4

It is just an old tradition

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	6 tradition	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tradition	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 tradition	advmod
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tradition	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tradition	amod
6	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a old tradition					tree rules

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