Test 7 · ★★★ · Snooping on phones, diaries and letters
report card in your bag, envelope says «To the parents of…». What's right?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: report card · What happens: say, be · To what, where: parents · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 357 «Snooping on phones, diaries and letters» 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: report card in your bag, envelope says «To the parents of…».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 card | compound |
| 2 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 bag | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bag | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 card | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 7 | envelope | envelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 parents | punct |
| 10 | To | to | ADP | _ | 12 parents | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 parents | det |
| 12 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 says | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 parents | nmod |
| 14 | … | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 parents | punct |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 parents | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | report card in your bag | the parents | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent parent=Topic |
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's right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Steam it open
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steam | steam | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Steam | obj |
| 3 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Steam | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steam | imperative | you not said here | it | open property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 2
Open it carefully and stick it back down
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 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 1 Open | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stick | cc |
| 5 | stick | stick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Open | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stick | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 down | advmod |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 stick | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | imperative | you not said here | it | carefully property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||
| 2 | stick | infinitive | you not said here | it | down property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3
Read it and hide it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Read | read | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Read | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 hide | cc |
| 4 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Read | conj |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hide | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | imperative | you not said here | it | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hide | infinitive | you not said here | it | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Give it to your parents unopened
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 parents | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 parents | nmod:poss |
| 5 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Give | obl |
| 6 | unopened | unopened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Give | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | it | your parents | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to parent=Recipient |
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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