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Test 1 · ★ · Breakfast, the register, the timetable, corridors, earthqu…

A girl skips breakfast every day. By mid-morning she cannot think in maths. What would help most?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: skip, not think, help · To what, where: breakfast, maths

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 329 «Breakfast, the register, the timetable, corridors, earthquake drills, pick-up, phones, tidy desks, homework and group work» 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 skips breakfast every day.

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	3 skips	nsubj
3	skips	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 skips	obj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 skips	obl:unmarked
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 skips	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skip	present	a girl	breakfast			day		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Agent

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: By mid-morning she cannot think in maths.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 mid-morning	case
2	mid-morning	mid-morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 think	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 think	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 think	advmod
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 maths	case
8	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 think	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	can	girl			maths		by mid-morning	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: What would help most?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 help	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 help	aux
3	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 help	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	would							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

A quick breakfast such as cereal or a banana

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 breakfast	det
2	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 breakfast	amod
3	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	6 cereal	case
5	as	as	ADP	_	4 such	fixed
6	cereal	cereal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breakfast	nmod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 banana	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 banana	det
9	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cereal	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Sitting nearer the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Sitting	xcomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 window	det
4	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund		the window				near property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme

Option 3

Drinking a fizzy drink at break

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 drink	det
3	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 drink	amod
4	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drinking	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 break	case
6	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drinking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund		a fizzy drink		break			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Going to bed later so she gets more rest in the evening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 gets	csubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 bed	case
3	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Going	obl
4	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Going	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 gets	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gets	nsubj
7	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 rest	amod
9	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gets	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 evening	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 evening	det
12	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund				bed		late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
2	get	present	she	more rest			evening		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rest=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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