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Test 6 · Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the l…

Before a big rugby match in Auckland, a mum points to a statue near the entrance. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: point · To what, where: statue, entrance

This is test 6 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: Before a big rugby match in Auckland, a mum points to a statue near the entrance.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Before	before	ADP	_	5 match	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 match	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 match	amod
4	rugby	rugby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 match	compound
5	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 points	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Auckland	case
7	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 match	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 match	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mum	det
10	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 points	nsubj
11	points	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 statue	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 statue	det
14	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 points	obl
15	near	near	ADP	_	17 entrance	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 entrance	det
17	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 points	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 points	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point	present	a mum		a statue	the entrance	before a big rugby match in Auckland		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to statue=Recipient

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

To choose a place to buy snacks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 choose	mark
2	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 place	det
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 choose	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 buy	mark
6	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 choose	xcomp
7	snacks	snack	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	to-infinitive		a place					tree rules
2	buy	to-infinitive		snacks					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snack=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To agree a meeting point in case they get separated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 agree	mark
2	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 point	det
4	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 point	compound
5	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 agree	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 case	case
7	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 point	nmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 separated	nsubj
9	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 separated	aux:pass
10	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 point	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	to-infinitive		a meeting point		case			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent point=Topic
2	separate	present · passive		they					vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

To show where the best seats in the stadium are to be found

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 show	mark
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 found	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 seats	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 seats	amod
6	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 found	nsubj:pass
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 stadium	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stadium	det
9	stadium	stadium	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seats	nmod
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 found	aux:pass
11	to	to	PART	_	13 found	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 found	aux:pass
13	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 show	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	to-infinitive							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	find	present · passive		the best seats in the stadium					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 4

To find the shortest way home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 find	mark
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	shortest	short	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 find	obj
6	home	home	ADV	_	2 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	to-infinitive		the shortest way				home property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

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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