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Test 8 · ★★ · Clocks, calendars and planning the day

A boy plays video games all Saturday morning and then worries all afternoon about his unfinished homework. What would have made his day better?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: play, worry, make · To what, where: video games

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 263 «Clocks, calendars and planning the day» 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: A boy plays video games all Saturday morning and then worries all afternoon about his unfinished homework.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plays	nsubj
3	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 games	compound
5	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 plays	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 morning	det
7	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 morning	compound
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plays	obl:unmarked
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 worries	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 worries	advmod
11	worries	worry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 plays	conj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 afternoon	det
13	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 worries	obj
14	about	about	ADP	_	17 homework	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 homework	nmod:poss
16	unfinished	unfinished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 homework	amod
17	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 worries	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 plays	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	a boy	video games			morning		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
2	worry	present	a boy not said here				then; afternoon	about boy's unfinished homework	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about homework=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.

Sentence 2: What would have made his day better?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 made	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	aux
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 day	nmod:poss
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl:unmarked
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 made	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would · perfect · passive					day	good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

The options

Option 1

Never doing homework at weekends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 doing	advmod
2	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 doing	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 weekends	case
5	weekends	weekend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 doing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	gerund		homework			weekend		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Playing even longer to forget the homework

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	even	even	ADV	_	3 longer	advmod
3	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Playing	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 forget	mark
5	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Playing	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 homework	det
7	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund						long property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	forget	to-infinitive		the homework					tree rules

Option 3

Doing the homework at midnight, when the house is quiet and nobody can disturb him

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 homework	det
3	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Doing	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 midnight	case
5	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Doing	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 quiet	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 quiet	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 quiet	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 quiet	cop
11	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Doing	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 disturb	cc
13	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 disturb	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 disturb	aux
15	disturb	disturb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 quiet	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 disturb	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	gerund		the homework			midnight		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Eventuality
2	is	present	the house					quiet property	tree rules
3	disturb	can	nobody	him = he					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Doing the homework first, then playing without worry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 homework	det
3	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Doing	obj
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Doing	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 playing	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 playing	advmod
7	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Doing	conj
8	without	without	ADP	_	9 worry	case
9	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 playing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	gerund		the homework				first property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Eventuality
2	play	gerund					then	without worry	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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