Test 8 · ★ · Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, getting dressed,…
A girl in Leeds swaps half her lunch with a new classmate she hardly knows. Why should she have checked first?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: swap, know, check · To what, where: lunch, new classmate
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 317 «Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, getting dressed, sleep and safe food» 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 Leeds swaps half her lunch with a new classmate she hardly knows.
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 swaps | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Leeds | case |
| 4 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | swaps | swap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 lunch | advmod |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lunch | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swaps | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 classmate | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 classmate | det |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 classmate | amod |
| 12 | classmate | classmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swaps | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 knows | nsubj |
| 14 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 15 knows | advmod |
| 15 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 classmate | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swaps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swap | present | a girl in Leeds | girl's lunch | with a new classmate | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with classmate=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | know | present | girl | a new classmate not said here | hardly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer classmate=Stimulus |
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 should she have checked first?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 checked | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 checked | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 checked | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 checked | aux |
| 5 | checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 checked | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 checked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | should · perfect | girl | first property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
The classmate might want more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 classmate | det |
| 2 | classmate | classmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 want | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | aux |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 want | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | might | the classmate | more | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=Theme |
Option 2
Her lunch might be cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 lunch | nmod:poss |
| 2 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cold | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 cold | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cold | cop |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | might | Her lunch | cold property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Swapping lunches with someone she doesn't know is against the law
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swapping | swap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 law | csubj |
| 2 | lunches | lunch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Swapping | obj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 someone | case |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Swapping | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 know | advmod |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 someone | acl:relcl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 law | cop |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 law | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 law | det |
| 12 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swap | gerund | lunches | with someone | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent lunch=Theme with someone=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | she | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Swapping | against the law | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Her classmate might be allergic to something in it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 classmate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | classmate | classmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 allergic | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 allergic | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 allergic | cop |
| 5 | allergic | allergic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 something | case |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 allergic | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 something | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | might | Her classmate | to something; allergic property | tree rules |
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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