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Test 8 · ★ · Water, small injuries, hay fever, growing up and eyesight

A boy keeps getting headaches in class and sits at the front to read the board. What might help?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: keep, get, sit, read, help · To what, where: headaches, class, front, board

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 290 «Water, small injuries, hay fever, growing up and eyesight» 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 keeps getting headaches in class and sits at the front to read the board.

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	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keeps	xcomp
5	headaches	headache	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 getting	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 class	case
7	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 getting	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sits	cc
9	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 keeps	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 front	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 front	det
12	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sits	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 read	mark
14	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sits	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 board	det
16	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 read	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	a boy						tree rules
2	get	gerund	a boy not said here	headaches		class			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer headache=Stimulus
3	sit	present	a boy not said here			the front			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at front=Location
4	read	to-infinitive	a boy not said here	the board					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Topic

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 might help?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 help	nsubj
2	might	might	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	might							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Sitting right at the back of the class instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	right	right	ADV	_	1 Sitting	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 back	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 back	det
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 class	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 class	det
8	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 back	nmod
9	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Sitting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund				the back of the class		instead, right property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at back=Location

Option 2

Not looking at the board at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 looking	advmod
2	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 board	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 board	det
5	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looking	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not look	gerund						at all; at the board	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at board=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Telling a teacher and parent and having an eye test

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 parent	cc
5	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 teacher	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 having	cc
7	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Telling	conj
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 test	det
9	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 test	compound
10	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 having	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund			a teacher and parent				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
2	have	gerund		a eye test					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Patient

Option 4

Closing one eye all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Closing	close	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 eye	nummod
3	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Closing	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Closing	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	gerund		one eye			day		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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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