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Test 4 · ★★ · Bikes, scooters and car parks

A boy locks only his front wheel to a post. What can a thief do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, thief · What happens: lock, do · To what, where: front wheel

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 272 «Bikes, scooters and car parks» 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 boy locks only his front wheel to a post.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 locks	nsubj
3	locks	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 wheel	advmod
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wheel	nmod:poss
6	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wheel	amod
7	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 locks	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 post	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 post	det
10	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 locks	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 locks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	present	a boy	boy's front wheel				to a post	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to post=Co-Patient

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 can a thief do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 thief	det
4	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	can	a thief						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, because the bike is locked to the post

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 locked	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 locked	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bike	det
5	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 locked	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 locked	aux:pass
7	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Nothing	appos
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 post	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 post	det
10	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 locked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	present · passive		the bike				to the post	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to post=Co-Patient

Option 2

Only take the lights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 take	advmod
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lights	det
4	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	the lights					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Take the rest of the bike and leave the wheel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rest	det
3	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 bike	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bike	det
6	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rest	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 leave	cc
8	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wheel	det
10	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	the rest of the bike					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme
2	leave	infinitive	you not said here	the wheel					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme

Option 4

Only take the bell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 take	advmod
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bell	det
4	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	the bell					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=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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