Test 2 · ★ · Breakfast, the register, the timetable, corridors, earthqu…
A fire alarm goes off. Why is it important that the register was taken that morning?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fire alarm · What happens: go off, be, take · To what, where: register
This is test 2 · ★ 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 fire alarm goes off.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 alarm | det |
| 2 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 alarm | compound |
| 3 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 goes | compound:prt |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | present | a fire alarm | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: Why is it important that the register was taken that morning?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 important | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 important | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 important | expl |
| 4 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 taken | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 register | det |
| 7 | register | register | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | aux:pass |
| 9 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 important | advcl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 morning | mark |
| 11 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 important | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | important property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | past · passive | the register | morning | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It tells parents what time to come
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 tells | nsubj |
| 2 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tells | obj |
| 4 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tells | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 time | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | It | parents | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | |||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
It decides which class leaves the building first and which goes last
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 decides | nsubj |
| 2 | decides | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 4 class | det |
| 4 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaves | nsubj |
| 5 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 decides | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 building | det |
| 7 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaves | obj |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 leaves | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 goes | cc |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 goes | nsubj |
| 11 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 decides | conj |
| 12 | last | last | ADV | _ | 11 goes | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | present | It | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | leave | present | which class | the building | first property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent building=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | present | last property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
It helps the fire engine find the school
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 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 engine | det |
| 4 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 engine | compound |
| 5 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 helps | obj |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 helps | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 school | det |
| 8 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | It | the fire engine | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent engine=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | infinitive | the fire engine not said here | the school | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Topic |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Teachers can check that every child is out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 check | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 check | aux |
| 3 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 out | mark |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 out | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 out | cop |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 check | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | can | Teachers | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | every child | out property | 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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