Test 7 · Staying up, screens and coming home late
Teacher to Mum: «She fell asleep in class again». The girl reads with a torch till late. What's the fix?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Teacher, girl, fix · What happens: fall, read, be · To what, where: class
This is test 7 of lesson 348 «Staying up, screens and coming home 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: Teacher to Mum: «She fell asleep in class again».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 Mum | case |
| 3 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Teacher | nmod |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Teacher | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 fell | punct |
| 6 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fell | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 class | case |
| 10 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | obl |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 fell | advmod |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 fell | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall in a quote | past | Teacher to Mum | class | again | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in class=Location |
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: The girl reads with a torch till late.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reads | nsubj |
| 3 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 torch | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 torch | det |
| 6 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reads | obl |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 late | mark |
| 8 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reads | advcl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reads | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present | the girl | with a torch | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: What's the fix?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fix | det |
| 4 | fix | fix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the fix | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Use a brighter torch so Mum doesn't see the glow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 torch | det |
| 3 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 torch | amod |
| 4 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Use | obj |
| 5 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 6 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | nsubj |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 see | advmod |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Use | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 glow | det |
| 11 | glow | glow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | imperative | you not said here | a brighter torch | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not see | present · do-support | Mum | the glow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glow=Stimulus |
Option 2
Sleep in class every day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 class | case |
| 3 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sleep | nmod |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sleep | obl:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Read faster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Read | read | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Read | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | imperative | you not said here | fast property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Keep to bedtime and read the ending at the weekend
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 bedtime | case |
| 3 | bedtime | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keep | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 read | cc |
| 5 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ending | det |
| 7 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 read | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 weekend | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 weekend | det |
| 10 | weekend | weekend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 read | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | to bedtime | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | read | infinitive | you not said here | the ending | weekend | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ending=Topic |
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