Test 4 · ★ · Breakfast, the school day and honest homework
A boy in Seattle feels the classroom start to shake hard. Which is the right action?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, classroom · What happens: feel, start, shake, be · To what, where: right action
This is test 4 · ★ 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 boy in Seattle feels the classroom start to shake hard.
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 feels | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Seattle | case |
| 4 | Seattle | Seattle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 classroom | det |
| 7 | classroom | classroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 start | nsubj |
| 8 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 feels | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 shake | mark |
| 10 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 start | xcomp |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 shake | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 feels | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | a boy in Seattle | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | start | infinitive | the classroom | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | shake | to-infinitive | the classroom not said here | hard property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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: Which is the right action?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 action | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 action | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 action | det |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 action | amod |
| 5 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 action | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the right action | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Get under his desk, cover his head and hold on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | under | under | ADP | _ | 4 desk | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 desk | nmod:poss |
| 4 | desk | desk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Get | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cover | punct |
| 6 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Get | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cover | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hold | cc |
| 10 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Get | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 hold | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | imperative | you not said here | his desk | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | cover | infinitive | you not said here | his head | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Destination | ||||
| 3 | hold on | infinitive | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Go and look out of the window
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 look | cc |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 window | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 window | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 window | det |
| 7 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look out | infinitive | you not said here | the window | tree rules |
Option 3
Stand in the doorway on his own
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 doorway | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 doorway | det |
| 4 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stand | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 own | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 own | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Stand | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | imperative | you not said here | the doorway | on his own | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location |
Option 4
Run down the stairs and out of the building straight away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADP | _ | 1 Run | compound:prt |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stairs | det |
| 4 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Run | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 building | cc |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 building | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 building | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 building | det |
| 9 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stairs | conj |
| 10 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 away | advmod |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Run | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run down | imperative | you not said here | the stairs and the building | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stair=Trajectory |
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