Test 7 · ★ · Teachers, visitors and the playground

Why might your teacher and parents meet at a conference?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: teacher · What happens: meet · To what, where: conference

This is test 7 · ★ 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	7 meet	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 meet	aux
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 teacher	nmod:poss
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meet	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 parents	cc
6	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 teacher	conj
7	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 conference	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 conference	det
10	conference	conference	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meet	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 meet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	might	your teacher and parents			a conference			vn meet-36.3-1 «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

To plan the school holidays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 plan	mark
2	plan	plan	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 holidays	det
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holidays	compound
5	holidays	holiday	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 plan	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plan	to-infinitive		the school holidays					vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holiday=Topic

Option 2

To swap recipes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	to-infinitive		recipes					vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recipe=Theme

Option 3

To decide on your birthday present

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 decide	mark
2	decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 present	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 present	nmod:poss
5	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 present	compound
6	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 decide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	to-infinitive						on your birthday present	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on present=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To work together to help you learn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 work	mark
2	work	work	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	together	together	ADV	_	2 work	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 help	mark
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 work	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 help	obj
7	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 help	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	work together	to-infinitive			together property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	help	to-infinitive		you		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	learn	infinitive	you not said here			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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