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Test 1 · Lifting and carrying heavy things

A boy in Glasgow sees his gran bending with straight legs to lift a bag of potatoes. What could he tell her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, gran · What happens: see, bend, lift, tell · To what, where: gran, bag, Glasgow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 3 «Lifting and carrying heavy things» 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 in Glasgow sees his gran bending with straight legs to lift a bag of potatoes.

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	5 sees	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Glasgow	case
4	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 gran	nmod:poss
7	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sees	obj
8	bending	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 sees	xcomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 legs	case
10	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 legs	amod
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bending	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 lift	mark
13	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 bending	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bag	det
15	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lift	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 potatoes	case
17	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bag	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sees	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	a boy in Glasgow	boy's gran					tree rules
2	bend	gerund	boy's gran not said here					with straight legs	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lift	to-infinitive	boy's gran not said here	a bag of potatoes					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=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.

Sentence 2: What could he tell her?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	could	boy		Glasgow				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Hold it out in front with straight arms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hold	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Hold	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 front	case
5	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 arms	case
7	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 arms	amod
8	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold out	imperative	you not said here	it		front		with straight arms	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in front=Location

Option 2

Lift it faster so it is over sooner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Lift	obj
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Lift	advmod
4	so	so	ADV	_	7 over	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 over	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 over	cop
7	over	over	ADV	_	8 sooner	advmod
8	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Lift	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	imperative	you not said here	it				fast, soon property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	present	it					over property	tree rules

Option 3

Twist round to lift it sideways

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twist	twist	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	round	round	ADV	_	1 Twist	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 lift	mark
4	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Twist	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lift	obj
6	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	4 lift	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twist	imperative	you not said here					round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	lift	to-infinitive	you not said here	it				sideways property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Bend your knees and keep it close

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bend	bend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 knees	nmod:poss
3	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Bend	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 keep	cc
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Bend	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 keep	obj
7	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	imperative	you not said here	your knees					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent knee=Material
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here	it				close property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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