Test 1 · ★ · Money in town and staying safe in crowds
A boy in Sydney keeps his birthday money loose in his shorts' back pocket at a busy market. What is the risk?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, risk · What happens: keep, be · To what, where: birthday money, back pocket
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 276 «Money in town and staying safe in crowds» 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 in Sydney keeps his birthday money loose in his shorts' back pocket at a busy market.
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 | 5 keeps | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Sydney | case |
| 4 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 money | nmod:poss |
| 7 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 money | compound |
| 8 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keeps | obj |
| 9 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 15 pocket | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 pocket | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 shorts | nmod:poss |
| 12 | shorts | short | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 12 shorts | case |
| 14 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pocket | compound |
| 15 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keeps | obl | ||
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 market | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 market | det |
| 18 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 market | amod |
| 19 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keeps | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 keeps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | a boy in Sydney | boy's birthday money | boy's shorts's back pocket | at a busy market | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent money=Theme in pocket=Location |
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 is the risk?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 risk | det |
| 4 | risk | risk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the risk | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
It will turn into coins
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 | 3 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 turn | aux |
| 3 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 coins | case |
| 5 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | future | It | coins | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into coin=Trajectory |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It can fall out or be taken without him noticing
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 | 3 fall | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fall | aux |
| 3 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 fall | compound:prt |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 taken | cc |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 taken | aux:pass |
| 7 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fall | conj |
| 8 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 10 noticing | mark |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 noticing | nsubj |
| 10 | noticing | notice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 fall | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall out | can | It | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | infinitive · passive | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 3 | notice | gerund | him = he | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
Shops will not accept it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 accept | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 accept | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 accept | advmod |
| 4 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 accept | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not accept | future | Shops | it | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 4
Nothing, back pockets are the safest place for notes and coins
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 | _ | 8 place | punct |
| 3 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pockets | compound |
| 4 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 place | nsubj | |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 place | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 7 | safest | safe | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 place | amod |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nothing | appos |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 notes | case |
| 10 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 place | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 coins | cc |
| 12 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 notes | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | back pockets | the safest place | for notes and coins | tree rules |
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