Test 8 · ★ · Breakfast, the school day and honest homework

Why is a tidy table useful at the end of a lesson?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: end

This is test 8 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 useful	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 useful	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 table	det
4	tidy	tidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 table	amod
5	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 useful	obl:unmarked
6	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 useful	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 lesson	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lesson	det
12	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 useful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present					at the end of a lesson	a tidy table obl:unmarked; useful property	tree rules

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.

The options

Option 1

It lets the teacher skip marking

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	2 lets	nsubj
2	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 marking	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 skip	compound
5	skip	skip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 marking	compound
6	marking	marking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	It	the skip marking					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marking=Theme

Option 2

It keeps the pencils sharp

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	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pencils	det
4	pencils	pencil	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keeps	obj
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	the pencils				sharp property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

You find things quickly and nobody trips over things left about

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	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 find	obj
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 find	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 trips	cc
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 trips	nsubj
7	trips	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 find	conj
8	over	over	ADP	_	9 things	case
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 trips	obl
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 things	acl
11	about	about	ADV	_	10 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	present	You	things		quickly property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
2	trip	present	nobody		things		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over thing=Trajectory
3	leave	participle		things not said here		about property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It makes the lesson finish early, so everyone gets a longer break

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lesson	det
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
6	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 finish	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gets	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 gets	advmod
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 gets	nsubj
10	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 break	det
12	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 break	amod
13	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the lesson		tree rules
2	finish	infinitive	the lesson not said here		early property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	get	present	everyone	a longer break		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer break=Stimulus

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