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Test 8 · ★ · Helpers in town and building sites

You are writing a letter to your gran. Why must you put her postcode on it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: write, put · To what, where: letter, gran, postcode

This is test 8 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: You are writing a letter to your gran.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 writing	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 writing	aux
3	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 letter	det
5	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writing	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 gran	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 gran	nmod:poss
8	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 letter	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 writing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present · progressive	You	a letter	your gran				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Topic to gran=Recipient

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 must you put her postcode on it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 put	advmod
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 postcode	nmod:poss
6	postcode	postcode	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	must	you	her postcode		postcode			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent postcode=Theme on it=Destination

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It makes the stamp cheaper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stamp	det
4	stamp	stamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the stamp				cheap property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material stamp=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It helps the letter reach her quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 letter	det
4	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 helps	obj
5	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helps	xcomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reach	obj
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	5 reach	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	It	the letter					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent letter=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	reach	infinitive	the letter not said here	her = she				quickly property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

It shows how old she is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shows	ccomp
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 old	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	she					old property	tree rules

Option 4

It is the number of her phone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 number	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 number	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 number	det
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 phone	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 phone	nmod:poss
7	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 number	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the number				of her phone	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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