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Test 6 · ★ · Routines, screen time and earning money

A boy feels angry when his game time ends. Which is the best way to handle it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, game time · What happens: feel, end, be, handle · To what, where: best way, way

This is test 6 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A boy feels angry when his game time ends.

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 feels	nsubj
3	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feels	xcomp
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 ends	advmod
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 time	nmod:poss
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 time	compound
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ends	nsubj
9	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 feels	advcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 feels	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	a boy					angry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	end	present	boy's game time						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 is the best way to handle it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 way	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 handle	mark
7	handle	handle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 handle	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the best way					tree rules
2	handle	to-infinitive		way					vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Argue for an extra hour until his parents say yes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 hour	case
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hour	det
4	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hour	amod
5	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Argue	obl
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 say	mark
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 parents	nmod:poss
8	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Argue	advcl
10	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	imperative	you not said here				hour		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	his parents						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Breathe, then move on to another activity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 move	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 move	advmod
4	move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Breathe	conj
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 move	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 activity	case
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 activity	det
8	activity	activity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	imperative	you not said here						vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	move on	infinitive	you not said here			another activity	then		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to activity=Trajectory

Option 3

Refuse to eat dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 eat	mark
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Refuse	xcomp
4	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	imperative	you not said here						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not eat	to-infinitive	you not said here	dinner					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient

Option 4

Throw the controller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 controller	det
3	controller	controller	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	the controller					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent controller=Theme

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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