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Test 8 · ★ · Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills

At school camp in Wales, a girl misses home on the second night. What is the best advice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, best advice · What happens: miss, be · To what, where: school camp

This is test 8 · ★ 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: At school camp in Wales, a girl misses home on the second night.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 camp	case
2	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 camp	compound
3	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 misses	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Wales	case
5	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 camp	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 camp	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 misses	nsubj
9	misses	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 misses	advmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 night	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 night	det
13	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 night	amod
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 misses	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 misses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	present	a girl			school camp in Wales	night	home property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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 best advice?

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	5 advice	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 advice	amod
5	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best advice						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Pretend to be ill so she can go home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	4 ill	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 ill	cop
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pretend	xcomp
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 go	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pretend	parataxis
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	you not said here					ill property	tree rules
3	go	can	she					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Stay awake all night until the feeling stops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Stay	xcomp
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stay	obl:unmarked
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 stops	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 feeling	det
7	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stops	nsubj
8	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Stay	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here				night	awake property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	present	the feeling						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

Phone home and demand that her parents come to fetch her at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 home	compound
2	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 demand	cc
4	demand	demand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 home	conj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 come	mark
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 parents	nmod:poss
7	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 come	nsubj
8	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 demand	acl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 fetch	mark
10	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 come	xcomp
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fetch	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 fetch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	her parents	demand not said here					tree rules
2	fetch	to-infinitive	her parents not said here	her = she					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Theme at once=Asset

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tell a teacher; homesickness is normal and usually passes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 normal	punct
5	homesickness	homesickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 normal	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 normal	cop
7	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 passes	cc
9	usually	usually	ADV	_	10 passes	advmod
10	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 normal	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a teacher				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
2	is	present	homesickness					normal property	tree rules
3	pass	present	homesickness not said here					usually property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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