Test 5 · ★★ · In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers
A girl in Sydney reads a comic on a winding road and feels sick. What would help most?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: read, wind, feel, help · To what, where: comic, winding road
This is test 5 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: A girl in Sydney reads a comic on a winding road and feels sick.
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 reads | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Sydney | case |
| 4 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 comic | det |
| 7 | comic | comic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reads | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 road | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 road | det |
| 10 | winding | wind | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 road | amod |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reads | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 feels | cc |
| 13 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reads | conj |
| 14 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feels | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reads | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present | a girl in Sydney | a comic | a winding road | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comic=Topic | |||
| 2 | wind | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | feel | present | a girl in Sydney not said here | sick property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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 would help most?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 help | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 help | aux |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 help | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | would | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Putting the comic away and looking out at the horizon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 comic | det |
| 3 | comic | comic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Putting | obj |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Putting | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 looking | cc |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Putting | conj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 looking | compound:prt |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 horizon | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 horizon | det |
| 10 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put away | gerund | the comic | away property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent comic=Goal | ||||
| 2 | look out | gerund | the horizon | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Reading faster to finish before she feels worse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reading | read | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 feels | csubj |
| 2 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Reading | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 finish | mark |
| 4 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Reading | advcl |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 she | case |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finish | obl |
| 7 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 feels | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | gerund | fast property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | finish | to-infinitive | before she | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | feel | present | Reading | bad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3
Holding the comic closer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 comic | det |
| 3 | comic | comic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Holding | obj |
| 4 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Holding | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | gerund | the comic | close property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comic=Theme |
Option 4
Sitting with her eyes on her lap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 eyes | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sitting | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 lap | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lap | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sitting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | her lap | with her eyes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on lap=Location |
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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