Test 14 · ★ · Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and q…
at the museum, can i touch the old vase
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: i · What happens: touch · To what, where: old vase, museum
This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 297 «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 museum | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 museum | det |
| 3 | museum | museum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 touch | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 museum | punct |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 touch | aux |
| 6 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 touch | nsubj |
| 7 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 vase | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 vase | amod |
| 10 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 touch | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | can | i | the old vase | the museum | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme vase=Co-Theme |
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.
The options
Option 1
Only if it's behind glass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 6 glass | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 glass | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 glass | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 glass | cop |
| 5 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 6 glass | case |
| 6 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | glass | tree rules |
Option 2
Yes, gently with one finger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 gently | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 finger | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 finger | nummod |
| 6 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gently | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yes, if no guard is looking that way
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 looking | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 looking | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 looking | mark |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 guard | det |
| 5 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looking | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 looking | aux |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looking | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present · progressive | no guard | that way | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, don't touch unless a sign says you may
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 touch | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 touch | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 touch | advmod |
| 5 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 9 says | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sign | det |
| 8 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 touch | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 may | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 says | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not touch | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | a sign | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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