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Test 4 · ★ · Accidents told too late

Dad downstairs: «Why is there a WET PATCH on the ceiling?!» What helps most now?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dad · What happens: be, help · To what, where: WET PATCH, ceiling

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 343 «Accidents told too late» 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: Dad downstairs: «Why is there a WET PATCH on the ceiling?!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 PATCH	nsubj
2	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	_	1 Dad	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 is	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 is	punct
5	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 is	advmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 PATCH	cop
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 is	expl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 PATCH	det
9	WET	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 PATCH	amod
10	PATCH	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 ceiling	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ceiling	det
13	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 PATCH	nmod
14	?!	?!	PUNCT	_	10 PATCH	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 PATCH	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Dad	a WET PATCH		the ceiling			tree rules

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 helps most now?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 now	advmod
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 helps	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 helps	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Say it was always there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 there	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 there	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 there	advmod
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it					always, there property	tree rules

Option 2

Hide more towels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 towels	amod
3	towels	towel	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	more towels					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent towel=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell him about the bath straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 bath	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bath	det
5	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obl
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		him = he			about the bath; away property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about bath=Topic

Option 4

Say it's raining inside the house again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 raining	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 raining	aux
4	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Say	ccomp
5	inside	inside	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 raining	obl
8	again	again	ADV	_	4 raining	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	rain	present · progressive	it			the house	again		vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

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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