Test 2 · ★ · Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places…
A grandpa in New Zealand posts a gift and hears nothing for months. How might he feel?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: grandpa · What happens: post, hear, feel · To what, where: gift, nothing
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 324 «Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places of worship and museums, compliments, and classmates with autism, ADHD or hidden disabilities» 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 grandpa in New Zealand posts a gift and hears nothing for months.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 grandpa | det |
| 2 | grandpa | grandpa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 posts | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Zealand | case |
| 4 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Zealand | flat |
| 5 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 grandpa | nmod |
| 6 | posts | post | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 gift | det |
| 8 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 posts | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hears | cc |
| 10 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 posts | conj |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 hears | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 months | case |
| 13 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hears | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 posts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | post | present | a grandpa in New Zealand | a gift | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | present | a grandpa in New Zealand not said here | nothing | month | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=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: How might he feel?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 feel | advmod |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | might | grandpa | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Unsure if it arrived and whether it was liked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unsure | unsure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 arrived | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Unsure | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 liked | cc |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 9 liked | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 liked | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 liked | aux:pass |
| 9 | liked | like | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Unsure | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | it | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | like | past · passive | it | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |
Option 2
It makes no difference to him
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 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 difference | det |
| 4 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 makes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | It | no difference | him = he | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material difference=Product |
Option 3
Glad he does not need to post again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glad | glad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 need | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 need | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 need | advmod |
| 5 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Glad | acl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 post | mark |
| 7 | post | post | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 need | xcomp |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 post | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not need | present · do-support | he | Glad not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | post not said to happen | to-infinitive | Glad not said here | again | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Happy, because silence usually means the present was a big success
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 means | mark |
| 4 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 6 means | advmod |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 present | det |
| 8 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 success | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 success | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 success | det |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 success | amod |
| 12 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Happy | usually property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the present | a big success | 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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