Test 13 · ★★ · Home alone, the door and the phone

someone trying to get in the back door!!

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: try, get · To what, where: back door

This is test 13 · ★★ 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	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 someone	acl
3	to	to	PART	_	4 get	mark
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 trying	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 door	compound
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
9	!!	!!	PUNCT	_	1 someone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	gerund							vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive				the back door			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Hide and wait

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 wait	cc
3	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hide	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here						vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wait	infinitive	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Go and open it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 open	cc
3	open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 open	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	open	infinitive	you not said here	it					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

Option 3

Shout through the door that you're on your own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	through	through	ADP	_	4 door	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shout	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 own	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 own	nsubj
7	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 own	cop
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 own	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 own	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Shout	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here			the door			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	you					own property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Call the emergency number at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 number	det
3	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 number	compound
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Call	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Call	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here	the emergency number					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent number=Theme at once=Stimulus

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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