Test 16 · ★ · Routines, screen time and earning money

Why did Josh's marks drop?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: marks, Josh · What happens: do, drop, mark

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 264 «Routines, screen time and earning money» 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	root	root
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	advcl
3	Josh	Josh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 marks	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Josh	case
5	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 drop	nsubj
6	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	advcl:relcl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drop	present	Josh's marks	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	mark		Josh	nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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

He was too clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clever	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clever	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 clever	advmod
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					clever property	tree rules

Option 2

His teacher changed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teacher	nmod:poss
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changed	nsubj
3	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	His teacher						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He was too tired from late screen time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 time	case
6	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
7	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 time	compound
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tired	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He				time	tired property	tree rules

Option 4

The work got easier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 work	det
2	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the work					easy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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