Test 9 · ★ · The library and books
You need facts about the planets. Which tool helps you find the right shelf in the library?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, tool · What happens: need, help, find · To what, where: facts, you, right shelf, library
This is test 9 · ★ 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: You need facts about the planets.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 need | nsubj |
| 2 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 need | obj |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 planets | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 planets | det |
| 6 | planets | planet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 facts | nmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 need | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | You | facts | about the planets | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fact=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: Which tool helps you find the right shelf in the library?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 tool | det |
| 2 | tool | tool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 helps | nsubj |
| 3 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 helps | obj |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 helps | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shelf | det |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shelf | amod |
| 8 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 library | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 library | det |
| 11 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 helps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | which tool | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | infinitive | you not said here | the right shelf | the library | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelf=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The library clock on the wall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 clock | det |
| 2 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clock | compound |
| 3 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 wall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wall | det |
| 6 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clock | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The returns box by the door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 box | det |
| 2 | returns | return | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 box | compound |
| 3 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 door | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 box | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The photocopier by the door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 photocopier | det |
| 2 | photocopier | photocopier | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 photocopier | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The library catalogue
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 catalogue | det |
| 2 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 catalogue | compound |
| 3 | catalogue | catalogue | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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