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Test 4 · ★★ · Home alone, the door and the phone

Jack is home alone and smells something like rotten eggs near the stove. What should he do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: be, do

This is test 4 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: Jack is home alone and smells something like rotten eggs near the stove.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 smells	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 smells	cop
3	home	home	ADV	_	6 smells	advcl
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 home	fixed
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 smells	cc
6	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 smells	obj
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 eggs	case
9	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 eggs	amod
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 something	nmod
11	near	near	ADP	_	13 stove	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stove	det
13	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eggs	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 smells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Jack					smell property	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 should he do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	Jack						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Call his friend from inside to ask what it is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 friend	nmod:poss
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Call	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 inside	case
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	1 Call	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 ask	mark
7	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Call	advcl
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 ask	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 what	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 what	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here	his friend					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent friend=Theme from inside=Source
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	friend						tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Go outside and phone for help from there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	outside	outside	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 phone	cc
4	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	conj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 help	case
6	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 there	case
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here					for help; outside property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from there=Initial_Location

Option 3

Turn on the kitchen fan to blow it away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 fan	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fan	det
4	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fan	compound
5	fan	fan	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turn	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 blow	mark
7	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Turn	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 blow	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	7 blow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	imperative	you not said here			the kitchen fan			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on fan=Trajectory
2	blow away	to-infinitive	you not said here	fan				away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

Turn the stove knobs on and off to test them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 knobs	det
3	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knobs	compound
4	knobs	knob	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Turn	obj
5	on	on	ADV	_	1 Turn	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 off	cc
7	off	off	ADV	_	5 on	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 test	mark
9	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Turn	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 test	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	imperative	you not said here	the stove knobs					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent knob=Theme
2	test	to-infinitive	you not said here	knobs = knob					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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