Test 1 · ★ · Breakfast, the school day and honest homework
A girl in Leeds feels very tired and grumpy by eleven o'clock every school day. What might help most?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: feel, help
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 306 «Breakfast, the school day and honest homework» 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 girl in Leeds feels very tired and grumpy by eleven o'clock every school day.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feels | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Leeds | case |
| 4 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 tired | advmod |
| 7 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feels | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 grumpy | cc |
| 9 | grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tired | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 o'clock | case |
| 11 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 o'clock | nummod |
| 12 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feels | obl |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 day | det |
| 14 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 day | compound |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feels | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 feels | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | a girl in Leeds | day | by eleven o'clock; tired property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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 most?
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 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 help | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | 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
Running in the corridors at break
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 corridors | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 corridors | det |
| 4 | corridors | corridor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Running | obl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 break | case |
| 6 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Running | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | gerund | the corridors | at break | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corridor=Trajectory |
Option 2
Skipping lunch as well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Skipping | skip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Skipping | obj |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 1 Skipping | advmod |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 as | fixed |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skip | gerund | lunch | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Going to bed later so she sleeps in deeper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 sleeps | csubj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 bed | case |
| 3 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Going | obl |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Going | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 sleeps | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sleeps | nsubj |
| 7 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 deeper | case |
| 9 | deeper | deep | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 sleeps | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | bed | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | sleep | present | she | deeper | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in deep=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Eating something simple for breakfast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Eating | obj |
| 3 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 something | amod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 breakfast | case |
| 5 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Eating | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | gerund | something | for breakfast | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
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