Test 1 · ★★ · Staying safe online and checking what you see
A torch app asks for your contacts and location. Why is that suspicious?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: torch app, your · What happens: ask, contact, be
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 283 «Staying safe online and checking what you see» 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 torch app asks for your contacts and location.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 app | det |
| 2 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 app | compound |
| 3 | app | app | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | nsubj |
| 4 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 contacts | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 contacts | nmod:poss |
| 7 | contacts | contact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 asks | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 location | cc |
| 9 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 contacts | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | a torch app | for your contacts and location | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | contact | your | nom contact «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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 is that suspicious?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 suspicious | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 suspicious | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 suspicious | mark |
| 4 | suspicious | suspicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 suspicious | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | suspicious property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
All torches need maps and phone numbers to shine properly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 torches | det |
| 2 | torches | torch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 need | nsubj |
| 3 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | maps | map | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 need | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 numbers | cc |
| 6 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 numbers | compound |
| 7 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 maps | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 shine | mark |
| 9 | shine | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 need | advcl |
| 10 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 9 shine | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | all torches | maps and phone numbers | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot map=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shine | to-infinitive | all torches not said here | properly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A torch does not need contacts or location to work
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 torch | det |
| 2 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 need | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 need | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 need | advmod |
| 5 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | contacts | contact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 need | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 location | cc |
| 8 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 contacts | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 work | mark |
| 10 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 need | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not need | present · do-support | a torch | contacts or location | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot contact=Theme | ||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | a torch not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
It makes the light brighter
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 light | det |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 5 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 makes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | It | the light | bright property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material light=Product |
Option 4
It is normal for every app
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 normal | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 normal | cop |
| 3 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 app | case |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 app | det |
| 6 | app | app | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 normal | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | for every app; normal 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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