Test 3 · ★ · Being trusted and what to do with things you find
Your neighbour gave you a key to feed his cat. You notice his new games console. What is right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: neighbour, You · What happens: give, feed, notice, be · To what, where: key, you, cat, games console
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 286 «Being trusted and what to do with things you find» 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: Your neighbour gave you a key to feed his cat.
vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient key=Theme
2
feed
to-infinitive
Your neighbour not said here
neighbour's cat
vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=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.
vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
2
bring back
infinitive
you not said here
game
late property
vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3
get
present
he
home property
vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
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.