Test 9 · ★ · The lunchroom and school trips
You really dislike the fish pie served at school every Friday. What could you do?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, fish · What happens: dislike, pie, serve, do · To what, where: school
This is test 9 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: You really dislike the fish pie served at school every Friday.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 dislike | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 dislike | advmod |
| 3 | dislike | dislike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fish | det |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pie | nsubj |
| 6 | pie | pie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dislike | ccomp |
| 7 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 pie | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 school | case |
| 9 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 served | obl |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 Friday | det |
| 11 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 served | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dislike | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dislike | present | You | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | pie | present | the fish | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | serve | participle | the fish not said here | school | friday | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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.
Sentence 2: What could you do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Talk to your parents about a packed lunch on Fridays
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 parents | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 parents | nmod:poss |
| 4 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Talk | obl |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 lunch | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lunch | det |
| 7 | packed | packed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lunch | amod |
| 8 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talk | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Fridays | case |
| 10 | Fridays | Friday | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Talk | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | imperative | you not said here | friday | to your parents; about a packed lunch | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent to parent=Co-Agent about lunch=Topic |
Option 2
Throw the pie on the floor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pie | det |
| 3 | pie | pie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Throw | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 floor | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 floor | det |
| 6 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Throw | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | imperative | you not said here | the pie | the floor | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent pie=Theme on floor=Destination |
Option 3
Refuse to eat anything at all on Fridays
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 eat | mark |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Refuse | xcomp |
| 4 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 eat | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 anything | nmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Fridays | case |
| 8 | Fridays | Friday | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 eat | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | imperative | you not said here | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not eat | to-infinitive | you not said here | anything | all | friday | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Tell the cooks loudly that their food is horrible and you won't eat it
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cooks | det |
| 3 | cooks | cook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Tell | obj |
| 4 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 1 Tell | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 horrible | mark |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 food | nmod:poss |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 horrible | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 horrible | cop |
| 9 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Tell | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 eat | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 eat | nsubj |
| 12 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 eat | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 eat | advmod |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tell | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 eat | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | the cooks | loudly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cook=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | present | cooks's food | horrible property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not eat | future | you | food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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