Test 15 · ★ · The library and books

Why did Ella have to pay the library?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ella · What happens: have, pay · To what, where: library

This is test 15 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 have	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 pay	mark
6	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 library	det
8	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pay	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	Ella						tree rules
2	pay	to-infinitive	Ella not said here	the library					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent library=Asset

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

She read too many books

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	2 read	nsubj
2	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 books	amod
5	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	She	many books					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She lost the book she borrowed

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	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 book	det
4	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 borrowed	nsubj
6	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 book	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	She	the book					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Eventuality
2	borrow	past	she	the book not said here					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme

Option 3

She returned it on time

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	2 returned	nsubj
2	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 returned	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 time	case
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 returned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	She	it			time		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Libraries charge for every book you read

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Libraries	library	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 charge	nsubj
2	charge	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 book	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 book	det
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 charge	obl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 read	nsubj
7	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 book	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	present	Libraries					for every book	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	read	present	you	every book not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic

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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