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Test 1 · ★ · Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows

A boy in Ontario is toasting a marshmallow and his little sister wants to play tag around the fire. What should he say?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, little sister · What happens: toast, want, play, say · To what, where: marshmallow, tag, fire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 300 «Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows» 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 Ontario is toasting a marshmallow and his little sister wants to play tag around the fire.

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	6 toasting	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ontario	case
4	Ontario	Ontario	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 toasting	aux
6	toasting	toast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 marshmallow	det
8	marshmallow	marshmallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 toasting	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wants	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sister	nmod:poss
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sister	amod
12	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wants	nsubj
13	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 toasting	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 play	mark
15	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wants	xcomp
16	tag	tag	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 play	obj
17	around	around	ADP	_	19 fire	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fire	det
19	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 play	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 toasting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toast	present · progressive	a boy in Ontario	a marshmallow					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent marshmallow=Patient
2	want	present	boy's little sister						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy's little sister not said here	tag		the fire			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tag=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 should he say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	should	boy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

It is fine if we hold hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 hold	mark
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 hold	nsubj
6	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	hold a condition, not said to happen	present	we	hands					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No running near the fire; we could fall in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 running	det
2	running	running	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	near	near	ADP	_	5 fire	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 running	nmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 running	punct
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 fall	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fall	aux
9	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 running	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADV	_	9 fall	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall in	could	we	no running near the fire not said here					vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient running=Result

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Run quickly round the fire so the smoke cannot follow us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Run	advmod
3	round	round	ADP	_	5 fire	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Run	obl
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	11 follow	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 smoke	det
8	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 follow	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 follow	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 follow	advmod
11	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Run	advcl
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 follow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here			the fire		quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round fire=Trajectory
2	not follow	can	the smoke	us					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme

Option 4

Only run on the far side of the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 run	advmod
2	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 side	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 side	det
5	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 side	amod
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 run	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 fire	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 side	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here			the far side of the fire			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory

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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