Test 13 · ★ · Helpers in town and building sites
building site fence has a gap, cool stuff in there
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: site fence · What happens: have · To what, where: gap
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 274 «Helpers in town and building sites» 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 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 site | compound |
| 2 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fence | compound |
| 3 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 gap | det |
| 6 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stuff | punct |
| 8 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stuff | amod |
| 9 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gap | appos |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 there | case |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 stuff | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | site fence | a gap | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Just peek in for a minute
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 peek | advmod |
| 2 | peek | peek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 peek | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 minute | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 minute | det |
| 6 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 peek | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peek | imperative | you not said here | minute | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Go in with a hard hat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 hat | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hat | det |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hat | amod |
| 6 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | imperative | you not said here | with a hard hat | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with hat=Beneficiary |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Never go in, it's dangerous
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 go | advmod |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 go | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dangerous | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dangerous | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dangerous | cop |
| 7 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 go | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go in | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | it | dangerous property | tree rules |
Option 4
Go in when no workers are there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 there | advmod |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 workers | det |
| 5 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 there | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 there | cop |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | no workers | there property | tree rules |
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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