Test 9 · ★ · Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a…

What is TRUE about curiosity?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 320 «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 TRUE	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 TRUE	cop
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 curiosity	case
5	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 TRUE	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about curiosity; true property	tree rules

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

It is rude to ask why

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rude	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rude	cop
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 ask	mark
5	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rude	csubj
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 ask	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					rude property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive							vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It helps you learn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 helps	obj
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	It	you					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	learn	infinitive	you not said here						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Clever people never need to ask questions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 need	advmod
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 ask	mark
6	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 need	xcomp
7	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present	Clever people						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	Clever people not said here	questions					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient

Option 4

It only matters at school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 matters	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 matters	advmod
3	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 school	case
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 matters	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	It			school			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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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