Test 10 · ★★ · Home alone, the door and the phone

home alone, doorbell, don't know them

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: not know · To what, where: home

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 35 «Home alone, the door and the phone» 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	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 home	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 doorbell	punct
4	doorbell	doorbell	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 home	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 know	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 know	advmod
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 home	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 know	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	infinitive · do-support		home					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

Don't open the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 open	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 open	advmod
3	open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 open	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not open	imperative · do-support	you not said here	the door					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme

Option 2

Let them in to wait

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	1 Let	compound:prt
4	to	to	PART	_	5 wait	mark
5	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in	imperative	you not said here	them = they					tree rules
2	wait	to-infinitive	them = they not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Open it if they smile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Open	obj
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 smile	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smile	nsubj
5	smile	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Open	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	imperative	you not said here	it					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	smile a condition, not said to happen	present	they						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Open it and ask who it is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Open	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 ask	cc
4	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Open	conj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	4 ask	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 who	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 who	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	open	imperative	you not said here	it	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	it		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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