Test 6 · ★ · The lunchroom and school trips
Why do teachers use a buddy system on trips?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: teachers · What happens: use · To what, where: buddy system, trips
This is test 6 · ★ 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 use | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 use | aux |
| 3 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 use | nsubj |
| 4 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 system | det |
| 6 | buddy | buddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 system | compound |
| 7 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 use | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 trips | case |
| 9 | trips | trip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 use | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · do-support | teachers | a buddy system | trips | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent system=Patient |
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
Buddies must share their lunch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buddies | buddy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 share | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 share | aux |
| 3 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lunch | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 share | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | must | Buddies | Buddies's lunch | tree rules |
Option 2
It makes the coach quieter
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 | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 coach | det |
| 4 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 5 | quieter | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 makes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | It | the coach | quiet property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material coach=Product |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Nobody can get lost without someone noticing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | aux |
| 3 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | aux:pass |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 6 someone | case |
| 6 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 lost | obl |
| 7 | noticing | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 someone | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | can · passive | Nobody | without someone | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | notice | gerund | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
Buddies carry each other's bags
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buddies | buddy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 bags | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bags | amod |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 other | case |
| 6 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carry | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | Buddies | each other bags | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme |
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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