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Test 9 · ★ · Teachers, visitors and the playground

A boy in Ireland has lost his play time for throwing snow at faces. What is the most useful thing to think about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: useful thing · What happens: lose, throw, be, think about · To what, where: boy, snow, faces

This is test 9 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A boy in Ireland has lost his play time for throwing snow at faces.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ireland	case
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	aux
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 time	nmod:poss
8	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 time	compound
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obj
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 throwing	mark
11	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 lost	advcl
12	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 throwing	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 faces	case
14	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 throwing	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · perfect · passive		a boy in Ireland			time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	throw	gerund		snow		faces			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent snow=Theme at face=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.

Sentence 2: What is the most useful thing to think about?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 useful	advmod
5	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 think	mark
8	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thing	acl
9	about	about	ADP	_	8 think	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the useful thing						tree rules
2	think about speech: other	to-infinitive	the useful thing not said here						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

What to do differently next time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 do	obj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 do	mark
3	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	differently	differently	ADV	_	3 do	advmod
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 do	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	to-infinitive					time	differently property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

Option 2

How unfair the teacher is to give such a punishment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 unfair	advmod
2	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 unfair	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 unfair	cop
6	to	to	PART	_	7 give	mark
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 unfair	advcl
8	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 punishment	det:predet
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 punishment	det
10	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the teacher					unfair property	tree rules
2	give	to-infinitive	the teacher not said here	such punishment					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punishment=Theme

Option 3

Which friend to blame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 blame	mark
4	blame	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 friend	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	to-infinitive							vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

How to throw without being seen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 throw	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 throw	mark
3	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	without	without	SCONJ	_	6 seen	mark
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 seen	aux:pass
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 throw	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	to-infinitive							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	see	gerund · passive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»

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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