Test 3 · ★ · Holidays of the region
A girl in Melbourne hears the bugle at a dawn service and her little brother starts chatting. What should she do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, little brother · What happens: hear, start, chat, do · To what, where: bugle, dawn service
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 265 «Holidays of the region» 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 girl in Melbourne hears the bugle at a dawn service and her little brother starts chatting.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hears | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Melbourne | case |
| 4 | Melbourne | Melbourne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bugle | det |
| 7 | bugle | bugle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hears | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 service | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 service | det |
| 10 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 service | compound |
| 11 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hears | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 starts | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 brother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 brother | amod |
| 15 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 starts | nsubj |
| 16 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hears | conj |
| 17 | chatting | chat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 starts | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hears | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | a girl in Melbourne | the bugle | a dawn service | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bugle=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | start | present | girl's little brother | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | chat speech: other | gerund | girl's little brother not said here | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: What should she do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should | girl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Walk away because the service is long and boring for children
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Walk | advmod |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 long | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 service | det |
| 5 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 long | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 long | cop |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Walk | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 boring | cc |
| 9 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 long | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 children | case |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 long | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk away | imperative | you not said here | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the service | for children; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the service not said here | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Quietly help him stand still and silent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 2 help | advmod |
| 2 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 help | obj |
| 4 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 help | xcomp |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 stand | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 silent | cc |
| 7 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stand | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | imperative | you not said here | him = he | quietly property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | infinitive | him = he not said here | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Clap loudly to finish the silence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clap | clap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finish | nsubj |
| 2 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 4 finish | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 finish | mark |
| 4 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 silence | det |
| 6 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finish | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | to-infinitive | Clap | the silence | loudly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality silence=Eventuality |
Option 4
Join in the chat so he is not alone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Join | Join | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 chat | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chat | det |
| 4 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Join | nmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 alone | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 alone | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 alone | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 alone | advmod |
| 9 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Join | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Join | alone property | tree rules |
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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