Test 2 · ★ · The lunchroom and school trips

Why should you tell a supervisor about a spilled drink on the lunch hall floor?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: tell, spill · To what, where: supervisor, hall floor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 258 «The lunchroom and school trips» 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 tell	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 supervisor	det
6	supervisor	supervisor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 drink	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 drink	det
9	spilled	spill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 drink	amod
10	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	15 floor	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 floor	det
13	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hall	compound
14	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 floor	compound
15	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	should	you	a supervisor		the hall floor		about a spilled drink	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent supervisor=Recipient about drink=Topic
2	spill	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

Someone could slip on the wet floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 slip	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 slip	aux
3	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 floor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 floor	det
6	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 floor	amod
7	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slip	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	could	Someone			the wet floor			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

The supervisor will want to drink it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 supervisor	det
2	supervisor	supervisor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 drink	mark
6	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	future	the supervisor						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	drink not said to happen	to-infinitive	the supervisor not said here	supervisor					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Spills make the food go cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spills	spill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 food	det
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Spills	the food					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	the food not said here					cold property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The floor might change colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 floor	det
2	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 change	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 change	aux
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	might	the floor	colour					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient

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