Test 16 · ★ · The library and books

spilled juice on a library book

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: spill

This is test 16 · ★ 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	spilled	spill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 juice	amod
2	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 book	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 book	det
5	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 book	compound
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 juice	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Hide it back on the shelf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hide	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Hide	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 shelf	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shelf	det
6	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide back	imperative	you not said here	it		the shelf			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient on shelf=Location

Option 2

Dry it and say nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Dry	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 say	cc
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Dry	conj
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	imperative	you not said here	it					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

Option 3

Tear out the wet pages so nobody sees the stains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tear	tear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Tear	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pages	det
4	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pages	amod
5	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tear	obj
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 sees	mark
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 sees	nsubj
8	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tear	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stains	det
10	stains	stain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sees	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear out	imperative	you not said here	the wet pages					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location page=Theme
2	see	present	nobody	the stains					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stain=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tell the librarian and say sorry

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 librarian	det
3	librarian	librarian	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 say	cc
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
6	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the librarian					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent librarian=Recipient
2	say speech: apologize	infinitive	you not said here					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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