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Test 1 · ★ · The library and books

A girl in Colorado keeps a library book for two months after the due date. Why is that unfair?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: keep, be · To what, where: library book

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 259 «The library and books» 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 girl in Colorado keeps a library book for two months after the due date.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeps	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Colorado	case
4	Colorado	Colorado	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 book	det
7	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 book	compound
8	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeps	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 months	case
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 months	nummod
11	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keeps	obl
12	after	after	ADP	_	15 date	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 date	det
14	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 date	amod
15	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeps	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	a girl in Colorado	a library book			after the due date; month		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=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.

Sentence 2: Why is that unfair?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 unfair	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unfair	cop
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 unfair	mark
4	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 unfair	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						unfair property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

The library will close without it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 library	det
2	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 close	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 close	aux
4	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	without	without	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 close	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	future	the library					without it	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

The book stops working after the date stamped inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 book	det
2	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stops	nsubj
3	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stops	xcomp
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 date	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 date	det
7	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 working	obl
8	stamped	stamp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 date	acl
9	inside	inside	ADV	_	8 stamped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	the book						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	work	gerund	the book not said here				after the date		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stamp	participle		the date not said here				inside property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

She will have to read it twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 read	mark
5	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 read	obj
7	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 read	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	future	She						tree rules
2	read	to-infinitive	She not said here	it				twice property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Other readers have been waiting for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 readers	amod
2	readers	reader	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 waiting	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 waiting	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 waiting	aux
5	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 waiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present · perfect · progressive	Other readers					for it	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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