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Test 9 · ★ · Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills

A boy hates the book he chose but thinks he must finish every book he starts. What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: hate, choose, think, finish, start, be · To what, where: book · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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 boy hates the book he chose but thinks he must finish every book he starts.

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	3 hates	nsubj
3	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 book	det
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hates	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 chose	nsubj
7	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 book	acl:relcl
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 thinks	cc
9	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hates	conj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 finish	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 finish	aux
12	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 thinks	ccomp
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 book	det
14	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 finish	obj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 starts	nsubj
16	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 book	acl:relcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hates	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	a boy	the book					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer book=Stimulus
2	choose	past	boy	the book not said here					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme
3	think speech: other	present	a boy not said here						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	finish	must	boy	every book					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector book=Eventuality
5	start	present	boy	every book not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Eventuality

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 true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Every book must be read to the last page

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 book	det
2	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 read	nsubj:pass
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 read	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 read	aux:pass
5	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 page	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 page	det
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 page	amod
9	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 read	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	must · passive		every book	the last page				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to page=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is fine to stop and pick another; reading should be enjoyable

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	3 fine	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stop	mark
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fine	csubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 pick	cc
7	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stop	conj
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 pick	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 enjoyable	punct
10	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 enjoyable	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 enjoyable	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 enjoyable	cop
13	enjoyable	enjoyable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fine	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	stop	to-infinitive							vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	pick	infinitive		another					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Patient
4	is	should	reading					enjoyable property	tree rules

Option 3

Stopping a book is against library rules

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stopping	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 rules	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 book	det
3	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stopping	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rules	cop
5	against	against	ADP	_	7 rules	case
6	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rules	compound
7	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	gerund		a book					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality book=Eventuality
2	is	present	Stopping					against library rules	tree rules

Option 4

He must finish it, or he will never learn to read well or stick at things

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 finish	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 finish	aux
3	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 finish	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 learn	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 learn	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 learn	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 learn	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 learn	advmod
10	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 finish	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 read	mark
12	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 learn	xcomp
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 read	advmod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 stick	cc
15	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 read	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 things	case
17	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	must	He	it					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality
2	not learn	future	he						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	read	to-infinitive	he not said here					well property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stick	infinitive	he not said here			things			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme at thing=Destination

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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