Test 12 · ★ · Breakfast, the register, the timetable, corridors, earthqu…

earthquake drill is so boring, why do it

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: earthquake drill · What happens: be, do · To what, where: drill

This is test 12 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drill	compound
2	drill	drill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boring	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 boring	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 boring	advmod
5	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 do	advmod
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 boring	parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	earthquake drill					boring property	tree rules
2	do	present		drill					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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 · ← Mova's choice

It's to miss a lesson

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	4 miss	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 miss	cop
3	to	to	PART	_	4 miss	mark
4	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lesson	det
6	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 miss	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					miss property	tree rules

Option 2

It's only for teachers, kids just sit there and wait it out

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	5 teachers	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 teachers	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 teachers	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 teachers	case
5	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sit	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kids	punct
7	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 teachers	conj
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 sit	advmod
9	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 sit	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wait	cc
12	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sit	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wait	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	12 wait	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			for teachers and kids	tree rules
2	sit	present	teachers and kids		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wait out	infinitive	teachers and kids not said here	it			tree rules

Option 3

Real quakes don't happen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 quakes	amod
2	quakes	quake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 happen	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 happen	advmod
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not happen	present · do-support	Real quakes						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

So you know to drop, cover and hold on in a real one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 know	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 drop	mark
5	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 know	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cover	punct
7	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 drop	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hold	cc
9	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 drop	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 hold	compound:prt
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 one	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 one	det
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 one	amod
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	know	present	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	drop	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	cover	infinitive	you not said here		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	hold on	infinitive	you not said here	in a real one	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in one=Location

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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