Test 9 · ★ · Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places…
can i touch the old vase in the museum
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: i · What happens: touch · To what, where: old vase, museum
This is test 9 · ★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 touch | aux |
| 2 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 touch | nsubj |
| 3 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 vase | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 vase | amod |
| 6 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 touch | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 museum | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 museum | det |
| 9 | museum | museum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 touch | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | can | i | the old vase | the museum | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme vase=Co-Theme |
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
Yes, if no guard is looking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 looking | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 looking | mark |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 guard | det |
| 5 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looking | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 looking | aux |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present · progressive | no guard | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
Yes, if you're careful
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 careful | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 careful | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 careful | nsubj |
| 5 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 careful | cop |
| 6 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | careful property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, don't touch unless signs say so
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 touch | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 touch | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 touch | advmod |
| 5 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 8 say | mark |
| 7 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 say | nsubj |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 touch | advcl |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 touch | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not touch | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | signs | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Yes, just one finger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 finger | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 finger | advmod |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 finger | nummod |
| 5 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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