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Test 3 · ★ · Electricity at home

A little sister is trying to push a hair clip into a socket. What is the best thing to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little sister, best thing · What happens: try, push, be, do · To what, where: hair clip, socket

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 32 «Electricity at home» 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 little sister is trying to push a hair clip into a socket.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sister	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sister	amod
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trying	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 trying	aux
5	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 push	mark
7	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 trying	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 clip	det
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clip	compound
10	clip	clip	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 push	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 socket	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 socket	det
13	socket	socket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 push	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 trying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	a little sister						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	push not said to happen	to-infinitive	a little sister not said here	a hair clip		a socket			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent clip=Theme into socket=Destination

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 is the best thing to do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best thing						tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the best thing not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Let her try because sockets are always off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 off	mark
5	sockets	socket	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 off	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 off	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 off	advmod
8	off	off	ADV	_	3 try	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	her = she					tree rules
2	try	infinitive	her = she not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	sockets					always, off property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Stop her gently and tell an adult at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Stop	obj
3	gently	gently	ADV	_	1 Stop	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 adult	det
7	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here	her = she				gently property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality she=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 3

Help her push it in more slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Help	obj
3	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Help	xcomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 push	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 more	case
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 push	obl
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 push	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	imperative	you not said here	her = she					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	push	infinitive	her = she not said here	it		more		slowly property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme in more=Trajectory

Option 4

Give her a fork to use instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fork	det
4	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 use	mark
6	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	advcl
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	6 use	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	a fork	her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient fork=Theme
2	use	to-infinitive	you not said here					instead property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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