Test 5 · ★ · The library and books
Why should you never highlight words in a library book?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: not highlight · To what, where: words, library book
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | 5 highlight | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 highlight | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 highlight | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 highlight | advmod |
| 5 | highlight | highlight | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 highlight | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 book | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 book | det |
| 9 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 book | compound |
| 10 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 highlight | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 highlight | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not highlight | should | you | words | a library book | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The book belongs to everyone who reads it
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 belongs | nsubj |
| 3 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 everyone | case |
| 5 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 belongs | obl |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 reads | nsubj |
| 7 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 everyone | acl:relcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reads | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | the book | to everyone | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | read | present | book | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
Option 2
Highlighters do not work on library paper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Highlighters | highlighter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 work | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 work | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 work | advmod |
| 4 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 paper | case |
| 6 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 paper | compound |
| 7 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 work | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not work | present · do-support | Highlighters | on library paper | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on paper=Theme |
Option 3
It makes the book heavier
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 book | det |
| 4 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 5 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 makes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | It | the book | heavy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material book=Product |
Option 4
Only teachers may highlight books
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 teachers | advmod |
| 2 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 highlight | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 highlight | aux |
| 4 | highlight | highlight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 highlight | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | highlight | may | teachers | books | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=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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