Test 9 · ★ · Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games
You find a big box in the garage and want to make a robot costume. What is the right first step?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, right first step · What happens: find, want, make, be · To what, where: big box, garage, robot costume
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 303 «Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games» 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: You find a big box in the garage and want to make a robot costume.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 find | nsubj |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 box | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 box | amod |
| 5 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 garage | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garage | det |
| 8 | garage | garage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 box | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 want | cc |
| 10 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 find | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 want | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 costume | det |
| 14 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 costume | compound |
| 15 | costume | costume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | You | a big box | the garage | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Topic | |||
| 2 | want | present | You not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | You not said here | a robot costume | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset costume=Product |
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 is the right first step?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 step | det |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 step | amod |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 step | amod |
| 6 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the right first step | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Paint it before telling anyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paint | paint | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Paint | obj |
| 3 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 telling | mark |
| 4 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Paint | advcl |
| 5 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 telling | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | imperative | you not said here | it | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | you not said here | anyone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Wait until it is dark to take it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 5 dark | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dark | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dark | cop |
| 5 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dark | csubj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 take | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | it | dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | it | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3
Cut it up straight away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Cut | obj |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Cut | compound:prt |
| 4 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 5 away | advmod |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Cut | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut up | imperative | you not said here | it | away property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Ask whether anyone needs the box
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 4 needs | mark |
| 3 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 needs | nsubj |
| 4 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ask | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 box | det |
| 6 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 needs | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | need | present | anyone | the box | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot box=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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