Test 11 · ★ · Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water…
lost at the fair and kinda scared
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: lose · To what, where: fair
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 319 «Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water, the news, getting lost) and boredom» 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 fair | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fair | det |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 lost | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 scared | cc |
| 6 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 7 scared | advmod |
| 7 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fair | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | the fair | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent at fair=Eventuality |
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.
The options
Option 1
Hide until it's quiet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 5 quiet | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 quiet | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 quiet | cop |
| 5 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Hide | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | imperative | you not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | it | quiet property | tree rules |
Option 2
Leave the fair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fair | det |
| 3 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | the fair | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fair=Theme |
Option 3
Follow someone who says he knows your mum
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Follow | obj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 someone | acl:relcl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 knows | nsubj |
| 6 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mum | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knows | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | imperative | you not said here | someone | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | know | present | he | your mum | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer mum=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Ask a staff member or a mum with kids
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 member | det |
| 3 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 member | compound |
| 4 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ask | obj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 mum | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mum | det |
| 7 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 member | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 kids | case |
| 9 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ask | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | a staff member or a mum | with kids | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent member=Recipient |
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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