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Test 3 · Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the l…

Two boys giggle loudly at a funny book in the library. What would be best?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Two boys · What happens: giggle, be · To what, where: funny book

This is test 3 of lesson 311 «Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the library, the doctor and crowds» 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: Two boys giggle loudly at a funny book in the library.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 boys	nummod
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 giggle	nsubj
3	giggle	giggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	3 giggle	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 book	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 book	det
7	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 book	amod
8	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 giggle	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 library	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 library	det
11	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 book	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 giggle	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	giggle	present	Two boys			a funny book in the library		loudly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 would be best?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 best	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 best	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 best	cop
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 best	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Read the funny bits aloud to the whole library so nobody misses out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bits	det
3	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bits	amod
4	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Read	obj
5	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	1 Read	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 library	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 library	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 library	amod
9	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Read	obl
10	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 misses	mark
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 misses	nsubj
12	misses	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Read	advcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 misses	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	imperative	you not said here	the funny bits	the whole library			aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bit=Topic to library=Recipient
2	miss out	present	nobody						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Throw the book away so they stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 book	det
3	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	1 Throw	advmod
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 stop	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stop	nsubj
7	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Throw	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw away	imperative	you not said here	the book				away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme
2	stop	present	they						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Share the joke quietly, because others are reading

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Share	share	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 joke	det
3	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Share	obj
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	1 Share	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 reading	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 reading	mark
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 reading	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 reading	aux
9	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Share	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	imperative	you not said here	the joke				quietly property	tree rules
2	read	present · progressive	others						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Laugh louder so everyone can join in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Laugh	xcomp
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	6 join	mark
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 join	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 join	aux
6	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Laugh	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	6 join	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here					loud property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	join in	can	everyone						vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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