Test 1 · ★ · Airports and planes
A girl at Heathrow hears her gate number changed over the loudspeaker. Why is it good she was listening?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: hear, change, be, listen · To what, where: gate number, loudspeaker
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 271 «Airports and planes» 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 at Heathrow hears her gate number changed over the loudspeaker.
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 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 Heathrow | case |
| 4 | Heathrow | Heathrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 number | nmod:poss |
| 7 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 number | compound |
| 8 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hears | obj |
| 9 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 number | acl |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 loudspeaker | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 loudspeaker | det |
| 12 | loudspeaker | loudspeaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 changed | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hears | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | a girl at Heathrow | girl's gate number | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | change | participle | girl's gate number not said here | the loudspeaker | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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: Why is it good she was listening?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 good | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 good | expl |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 listening | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 listening | aux |
| 7 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 good | conj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | listen | past · progressive | girl | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Gates and times can change, and she could miss her flight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 change | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 times | cc |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Gates | conj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 change | aux |
| 5 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 miss | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 miss | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 miss | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 miss | aux |
| 10 | miss | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 change | parataxis |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 miss | obj |
| 12 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 miss | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | can | Gates and times | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | miss | could | she | her = she | flight obl:unmarked | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
Option 2
Announcements tell you what to eat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Announcements | announcement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 tell | iobj |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 eat | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 eat | mark |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tell | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | Announcements | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
Option 3
The announcement was about free sweets for children
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 announcement | det |
| 2 | announcement | announcement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sweets | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sweets | cop |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 sweets | case |
| 5 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sweets | amod |
| 6 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 children | case |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sweets | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the announcement | about free sweets; for children | tree rules |
Option 4
She needed to know the weather
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 needed | nsubj |
| 2 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 know | mark |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 needed | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 weather | det |
| 6 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | past | She | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | She not said here | the weather | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer weather=Stimulus |
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