Test 2 · ★ · Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, pla…
A girl's little brother walks into the bathroom without knocking while she is in there. What is a fair thing to say later?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little brother, girl · What happens: walk, knock, be, say · To what, where: bathroom, fair thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 321 «Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed» 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's little brother walks into the bathroom without knocking while she is in there.
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 brother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 girl | case |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brother | amod |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walks | nsubj |
| 6 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 bathroom | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bathroom | det |
| 9 | bathroom | bathroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walks | obl |
| 10 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 11 knocking | mark |
| 11 | knocking | knock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 walks | advcl |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 there | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 there | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 there | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 there | case |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 knocking | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 walks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | a girl's little brother | into the bathroom result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into bathroom=Result | ||||
| 2 | knock | gerund | a girl's little brother not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | present | girl | there 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.
Sentence 2: What is a fair thing to say later?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 say | mark |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thing | acl |
| 8 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 say | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a fair thing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | late property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Doors should always be left open
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 left | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 left | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 left | aux:pass |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 left | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | should · passive | Doors | always, open property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Please knock first, because the bathroom is private
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 2 knock | discourse |
| 2 | knock | knock | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 knock | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 private | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 private | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bathroom | det |
| 7 | bathroom | bathroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 private | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 private | cop |
| 9 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 knock | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | imperative | you not said here | first property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the bathroom | private property | tree rules |
Option 3
Nothing, privacy does not matter at home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 matter | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | privacy | privacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 matter | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 matter | advmod |
| 6 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 matter | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not matter | present · do-support | Nothing | home | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4
You must never go into the bathroom again while I'm in the house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 go | advmod |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 bathroom | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bathroom | det |
| 7 | bathroom | bathroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 house | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 house | nsubj |
| 11 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 house | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | must | You | the bathroom | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bathroom=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | present | I | the house | 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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