Test 5 · Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the l…
A girl carries her money in an open coat pocket at a busy market. What could happen?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: carry, happen · To what, where: money, open coat pocket
This is test 5 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: A girl carries her money in an open coat pocket at a busy market.
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 | 3 carries | nsubj |
| 3 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 money | nmod:poss |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carries | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 pocket | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pocket | det |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pocket | amod |
| 9 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pocket | compound |
| 10 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carries | obl | ||
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 market | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 market | det |
| 13 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 market | amod |
| 14 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carries | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carries | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | a girl | girl's money | a open coat pocket | at a busy market | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent money=Value in pocket=Location |
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 could happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | could | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
It could fall out or be stolen more easily
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 fall | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fall | aux |
| 3 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 fall | compound:prt |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 stolen | cc |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stolen | aux:pass |
| 7 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fall | conj |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 easily | advmod |
| 9 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 3 fall | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall out | could | It | easily property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | steal | infinitive · passive | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V» |
Option 2
Nothing, money cannot fall out of pockets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 money | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fall | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 fall | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 fall | advmod |
| 6 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 pockets | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 pockets | case |
| 9 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fall | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fall | can | Nothing money | pockets | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out pocket=Location |
Option 3
The market will look after it for her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 market | det |
| 2 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 look | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 look | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | future | the market | after it | for her = she | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for she=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
It will be safer than in a zipped pocket
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 | 4 safer | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 safer | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 safer | cop |
| 4 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 pocket | case |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 pocket | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pocket | det |
| 8 | zipped | zip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 pocket | amod |
| 9 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 safer | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | It | than a zipped pocket; safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | zip | participle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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