Test 16 · ★ · Airports and planes
ears hurt loads landing, help
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: hurt
This is test 16 · ★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 loads | amod |
| 3 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 ears | conj |
| 4 | landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ears | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 help | punct |
| 6 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ears | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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 · ← Mova's choice
Hold your breath till you land
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 breath | nmod:poss |
| 3 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hold | obj |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 land | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 land | nsubj |
| 6 | land | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hold | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | imperative | you not said here | your breath | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | ||||
| 2 | land | present | you | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Press hard on your ears with both hands
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Press | press | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Press | advmod |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 ears | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ears | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Press | nmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 hands | case |
| 7 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 hands | det |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Press | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Stand up and walk around
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Stand | compound:prt |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 walk | cc |
| 4 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stand | conj |
| 5 | around | around | ADV | _ | 4 walk | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | imperative | you not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | walk around | infinitive | you not said here | around property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Swallow, yawn or chew to help your ears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swallow | swallow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 yawn | punct |
| 3 | yawn | yawn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Swallow | conj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 chew | cc |
| 5 | chew | chew | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Swallow | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 help | mark |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 chew | advcl |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ears | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 help | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | imperative | you not said here | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | yawn | infinitive | you not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | chew | infinitive | you not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | you not said here | your ears | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Beneficiary |
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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