Test 12 · ★★ · In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers

feel carsick, gonna play on my tablet to forget it

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: feel, play, forget · To what, where: tablet

This is test 12 · ★★ 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	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	carsick	carsick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 feel	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 play	punct
4	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	5 play	dep
5	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 feel	parataxis
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 tablet	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tablet	nmod:poss
8	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 play	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 forget	mark
10	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 play	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	imperative	you not said here			carsick property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	play	infinitive			my tablet		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	forget	to-infinitive		tablet			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

Close your eyes and play games

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Close	close	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eyes	nmod:poss
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Close	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 play	cc
5	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Close	conj
6	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 play	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	imperative	you not said here	your eyes					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	play	infinitive	you not said here	games					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Read a book instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 book	det
3	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Read	obj
4	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Read	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	imperative	you not said here	a book				instead property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic

Option 3

Look down at your feet till it passes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Look	compound:prt
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 feet	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feet	nmod:poss
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Look	obl
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 passes	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 passes	nsubj
8	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look down	imperative	you not said here					at your feet	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at foot=Theme
2	pass	present	it						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Look out the front at the horizon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Look	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 front	det
4	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 horizon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horizon	det
7	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look out	imperative	you not said here	the front		the horizon			vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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