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

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