Test 2 · ★ · Teachers, visitors and the playground

Why do schools make children stop playing as soon as the bell rings?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: schools, children, bell · What happens: make, stop, play, ring · To what, where: children

This is test 2 · ★ 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	4 make	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
7	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stop	xcomp
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 soon	advmod
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 playing	advmod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 rings	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bell	det
12	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rings	nsubj
13	rings	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 soon	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present · do-support	schools	children		tree rules
2	stop	infinitive	children not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	play	gerund	children not said here		soon property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ring	present	the bell			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

So lessons can start on time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 start	advmod
2	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 start	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 start	aux
4	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 time	case
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 start	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	can	lessons				time		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

So the teachers can play instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 play	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teachers	det
3	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 play	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 play	aux
5	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	5 play	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	can	the teachers					instead property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Because the playground closes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 closes	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 playground	det
3	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 closes	nsubj
4	closes	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	present	the playground						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Because running after a bell is dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	7 dangerous	mark
2	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 dangerous	csubj
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 bell	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bell	det
5	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 running	obl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dangerous	cop
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund					after a bell		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	running					dangerous 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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