Test 8 · ★ · The library and books

Why is it fine to stop a book you do not enjoy?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, stop, not enjoy · To what, where: book

This is test 8 · ★ 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 fine	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fine	expl
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stop	mark
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fine	csubj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 book	det
8	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stop	obj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 enjoy	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 enjoy	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 enjoy	advmod
12	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 book	acl:relcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			fine property	tree rules
2	stop	to-infinitive		a book		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality book=Eventuality
3	not enjoy	present · do-support	you	a book not said here		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer book=Stimulus

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

The library will be angry if you finish 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	5 angry	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 angry	cop
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 finish	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 finish	nsubj
8	finish	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 finish	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	the library					angry property	tree rules
2	finish a condition, not said to happen	present	you	library					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Reading should be fun, and there are many other books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 fun	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fun	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 fun	cop
4	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 are	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 are	cc
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 are	expl
8	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fun	conj
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 books	amod
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 books	amod
11	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 are	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	read	gerund				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	should			fun property	tree rules
3	does	present	many other books	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Books are always better in the middle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 better	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 better	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 better	advmod
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 middle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 middle	det
7	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Books			the middle		always, good property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

You have to read it again anyway next year in class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 read	mark
4	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 read	obj
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 read	advmod
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 read	advmod
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 year	amod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 read	obl:unmarked
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 class	case
11	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 read	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	You						tree rules
2	read	to-infinitive	You not said here	it		class	again; year	anyway property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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