Test 3 · ★ · Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills
A girl at school in Dublin falls in the playground and needs her mum to collect her. Who can phone her mum?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: fall, need, collect, phone · To what, where: playground, mum, girl
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 307 «Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills» 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 at school in Dublin falls in the playground and needs her mum to collect her.
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 | 7 falls | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 school | case |
| 4 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Dublin | case |
| 6 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 7 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 playground | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 playground | det |
| 10 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 falls | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 needs | cc |
| 12 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 falls | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mum | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 needs | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 collect | mark |
| 16 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 needs | advcl |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 collect | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 falls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | a girl at school in Dublin | the playground | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in playground=Location | ||||
| 2 | need | present | a girl at school in Dublin not said here | girl's mum | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mum=Theme | ||||
| 3 | collect | to-infinitive | a girl at school in Dublin not said here | girl | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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: Who can phone her mum?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 phone | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 phone | aux |
| 3 | phone | phone | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mum | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 phone | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 phone | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | phone | can | girl's mum | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |
The options
Option 1
Another pupil with a mobile phone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 pupil | det |
| 2 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 phone | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 phone | det |
| 5 | mobile | mobile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 phone | amod |
| 6 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pupil | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The bus driver who takes her home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 driver | det |
| 2 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 driver | compound |
| 3 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 takes | nsubj |
| 5 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 driver | acl:relcl |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 home | nmod:poss |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 takes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | the bus driver | driver's home | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The staff in the school office
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 staff | det |
| 2 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 office | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 office | det |
| 5 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 office | compound |
| 6 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 staff | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Nobody, she must wait until home time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 wait | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nobody | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wait | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | aux |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | until | until | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | compound |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wait | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | must | she | time | Nobody vocative | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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