Test 7 · ★ · Money in town and staying safe in crowds
In a dark cinema a fire alarm rings. What knowledge helps most now?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: knowledge · What happens: help
This is test 7 · ★ 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: In a dark cinema a fire alarm rings.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 cinema | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cinema | det |
| 3 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cinema | amod |
| 4 | cinema | cinema | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rings | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 alarm | det |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 alarm | compound |
| 7 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rings | compound |
| 8 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rings | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: What knowledge helps most now?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 helps | obj |
| 2 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 helps | nsubj |
| 3 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 now | advmod |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 helps | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 helps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | knowledge | now | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Knowing which film is showing next
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 showing | csubj |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 film | det |
| 3 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Knowing | obj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 showing | aux |
| 5 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | next | next | ADV | _ | 5 showing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | which film | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer film=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | show | present · progressive | Knowing | next property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Knowing where the nearest exit is
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 where | nsubj |
| 2 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 exit | det |
| 4 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 exit | amod |
| 5 | exit | exit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 where | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 where | cop |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | where property | tree rules |
Option 3
Knowing how much the tickets cost
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 much | advmod |
| 3 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cost | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tickets | det |
| 5 | tickets | ticket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cost | nsubj |
| 6 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Knowing | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | cost | present | the tickets | much | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value |
Option 4
Knowing where the toilets are
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 where | nsubj |
| 2 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 toilets | det |
| 4 | toilets | toilet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 where | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 where | cop |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | where property | tree rules |
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