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Test 9 · ★ · Helpers in town and building sites

The fence round a building site has a gap. Why should you still not go in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fence, you · What happens: have, not go in · To what, where: gap

This is test 9 · ★ 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: The fence round a building site has a gap.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fence	det
2	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
3	round	round	ADP	_	6 site	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 site	det
5	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 site	compound
6	site	site	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fence	nmod
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 gap	det
9	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the fence round a building site	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.

Sentence 2: Why should you still not go in?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 go	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 go	advmod
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go in	should	you				still		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Builders will give you a job

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Builders	builder	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 job	det
6	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	future	Builders	a job	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient job=Theme

Option 2

The fence is only for decoration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fence	det
2	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 decoration	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 decoration	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 decoration	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 decoration	case
6	decoration	decoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the fence					for decoration	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

There are holes, machines and falling things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 machines	punct
5	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 holes	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 things	cc
7	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 things	amod
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 holes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	holes and machines and falling things			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	gerund							vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

You might find treasure buried in the ground, and it belongs to the builders

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 find	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obj
5	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 treasure	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buried	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 belongs	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 belongs	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 belongs	nsubj
12	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 find	ccomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 builders	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 builders	det
15	builders	builder	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 belongs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	might	You	treasure					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent treasure=Attribute clause=Theme
2	bury	participle		treasure not said here		the ground			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in ground=Destination
3	belong	present	treasure					to the builders	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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