Test 2 · ★ · Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted
A girl in Glasgow skips PE to sit in the library without telling anyone. Why might the staff panic?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: skip, sit, tell · To what, where: PE, library, anyone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 315 «Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted» 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 in Glasgow skips PE to sit in the library without telling anyone.
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 | 5 skips | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Glasgow | case |
| 4 | Glasgow | Glasgow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | skips | skip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | PE | pe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skips | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sit | mark |
| 8 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 skips | xcomp |
| 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 sit | obl |
| 12 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 13 telling | mark |
| 13 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 sit | advcl |
| 14 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 telling | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 skips | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skip | present | a girl in Glasgow | PE | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit | to-infinitive | a girl in Glasgow not said here | the library | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in library=Location | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | a girl in Glasgow not said here | anyone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=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 might the staff panic?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 Why | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 panic | det |
| 4 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 panic | compound |
| 5 | panic | panic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Why | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
They want her to do more running and get fitter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 want | nsubj |
| 2 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 want | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 want | xcomp |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 running | amod |
| 7 | running | running | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 get | cc |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | conj |
| 10 | fitter | fit | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 get | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | They | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | her = she not said here | more running | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent running=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | her = she not said here | fit property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
Skipping PE is never noticed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Skipping | skip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 noticed | csubj |
| 2 | PE | pe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Skipping | obj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 noticed | aux:pass |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 noticed | advmod |
| 5 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skip | gerund | PE | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pe=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not notice | present · passive | Skipping | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING» |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
They must always know where every child is
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 know | ccomp |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 child | det |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 where | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 where | cop |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | must | They | always property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | every child | where property | tree rules |
Option 4
The library is closed in the afternoon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 library | det |
| 2 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 closed | aux:pass |
| 4 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 afternoon | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 afternoon | det |
| 7 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 closed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | present · passive | the library | afternoon | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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