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Test 8 · ★ · Breakfast, the register, the timetable, corridors, earthqu…

Two children in a group each want their own poster design. What is a fair way to decide?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Two children, children, fair way · What happens: want, design, be, decide · To what, where: own poster design

This is test 8 · ★ 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: Two children in a group each want their own poster design.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 children	nummod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 want	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 group	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 group	det
5	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 children	nmod
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 want	advmod
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 design	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 design	amod
10	poster	poster	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 design	compound
11	design	design	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Two children in a group	children's own poster design					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot design=Theme
2	design		children = child						nom design «act transitive»: poss=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: What is a fair way to decide?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 decide	mark
7	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a fair way						tree rules
2	decide	to-infinitive	a fair way not said here						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

The one who shouts loudest wins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 shouts	nsubj
4	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 one	acl:relcl
5	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 wins	amod
6	wins	win	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shouts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	the one	loudest wins					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent win=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Hear both ideas, then vote or combine them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 ideas	det
3	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hear	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 vote	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 vote	advmod
6	vote	vote	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hear	conj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 combine	cc
8	combine	combine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 vote	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 combine	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	imperative	you not said here	both ideas					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer idea=Stimulus
2	vote	infinitive	you not said here				then		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	combine	infinitive	you not said here	ideas = idea					vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

Nobody makes the poster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 poster	det
4	poster	poster	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Nobody	the poster					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poster=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The taller child decides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 child	det
2	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 child	amod
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 decides	nsubj
4	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	present	the taller child						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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