Test 11 · ★★ · In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers
just 5 mins to nan's, can me n jess share one belt?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: jess, share · To what, where: one belt
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 268 «In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers» 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 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 mins | advmod |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 mins | nummod |
| 3 | mins | minute | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 11 jess | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 nan | case |
| 5 | nan | nan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mins | nmod |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 nan | case |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mins | punct |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 jess | aux |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 can | nsubj |
| 10 | n | n | X | _ | 8 can | dep |
| 11 | jess | jess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 jess | xcomp |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 belt | nummod |
| 14 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 share | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 jess | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jess | can | minute | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | share | infinitive | one belt | tree rules |
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
Sit on mum's lap instead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 lap | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lap | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 mum | case |
| 5 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sit | obl |
| 6 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 1 Sit | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | imperative | you not said here | mum's lap | instead property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on lap=Location |
Option 2
Yes, if you sit very close together and hold on tight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 sit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sit | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 sit | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 sit | nsubj |
| 5 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 close | advmod |
| 7 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 sit | advmod |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 sit | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hold | cc |
| 10 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sit | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 hold | compound:prt |
| 12 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 10 hold | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | you | close, together property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hold on | infinitive | you not said here | tight property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yes, for short trips
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 trips | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 trips | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 trips | case |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 trips | amod |
| 5 | trips | trip | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, everyone needs their own belt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 needs | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 needs | nsubj |
| 4 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 belt | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 belt | amod |
| 7 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 needs | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | everyone | their own belt | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot belt=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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