Test 6 · ★ · Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food
A girl in Brisbane cannot sleep because her room is hot, bright and noisy. What would help?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, room · What happens: not sleep, be, help
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 289 «Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food» 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 girl in Brisbane cannot sleep because her room is hot, bright and noisy.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sleep | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Brisbane | case |
| 4 | Brisbane | Brisbane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 sleep | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 sleep | advmod |
| 7 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 hot | mark |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 room | nmod:poss |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hot | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hot | cop |
| 12 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sleep | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bright | punct |
| 14 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hot | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 noisy | cc |
| 16 | noisy | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hot | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sleep | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sleep | can | a girl in Brisbane | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | girl's room | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | girl's room not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | girl's room not said here | tree rules |
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 would help?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 help | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 help | aux |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | would | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Turning on a loud fan heater
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 heater | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 heater | det |
| 4 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 heater | amod |
| 5 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heater | compound |
| 6 | heater | heater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Turning | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | a loud fan heater | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on heater=Trajectory |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Making the room darker, quieter and cooler
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 darker | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 room | det |
| 3 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Making | obj |
| 4 | darker | dark | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 quieter | punct |
| 6 | quieter | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 darker | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cooler | cc |
| 8 | cooler | cool | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 darker | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | the room | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset room=Product |
Option 3
Playing loud music to cover the noise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 2 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 music | amod |
| 3 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Playing | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 cover | mark |
| 5 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Playing | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 noise | det |
| 7 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cover | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | gerund | loud music | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cover | to-infinitive | the noise | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme noise=Destination |
Option 4
Opening the curtains wide to let in the streetlights
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Opening | open | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 wide | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 curtains | det |
| 3 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Opening | obj |
| 4 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 let | mark |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wide | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 streetlights | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 streetlights | det |
| 9 | streetlights | streetlight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 let | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | gerund | the curtains | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location curtain=Theme | |||||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | the streetlights | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
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