Test 6 · ★★ · Home alone, the door and the phone
Someone knocks again and again and tries the door handle while Ella is home alone. What should Ella do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Someone, Ella · What happens: knock, try, be, do · To what, where: door handle
This is test 6 · ★★ 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: Someone knocks again and again and tries the door handle while Ella is home alone.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 knocks | nsubj |
| 2 | knocks | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 knocks | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 again | cc |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 again | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tries | cc |
| 7 | tries | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 knocks | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 handle | det |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 handle | compound |
| 10 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tries | obj |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 home | mark |
| 12 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 home | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 home | cop |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 tries | advcl |
| 15 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 7 tries | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knocks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | present | Someone | again | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | try | present | Someone not said here | the door handle | alone property | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handle=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | is | present | Ella | home 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 Ella 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 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 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 | Ella | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Phone 999 or the local emergency number at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | 999 | 999 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Phone | appos |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 number | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 number | det |
| 5 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 number | amod |
| 6 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 number | compound |
| 7 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 999 | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 once | case |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 number | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Unlock the back door and wait outside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unlock | unlock | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 3 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 door | compound |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Unlock | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wait | cc |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Unlock | conj |
| 7 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 6 wait | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unlock | imperative | you not said here | the back door | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wait | infinitive | you not said here | outside property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Hide and hope they go away, calling nobody
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 hope | cc |
| 3 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hide | conj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 calling | punct |
| 8 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 go | advcl |
| 9 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 calling | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | present | Hide and hope | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | gerund | Hide and hope not said here | nobody | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nobody=Recipient |
Option 4
Open the door and ask them to leave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Open | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ask | cc |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Open | conj |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ask | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 leave | mark |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ask | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | imperative | you not said here | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | them = they | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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