Test 7 · Taking care of your things and money
A boy leaves his scooter outside in the rain all winter. What is likely to happen?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: leave, be, happen · To what, where: scooter, rain
This is test 7 of lesson 37 «Taking care of your things and money» 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: A boy leaves his scooter outside in the rain all winter.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaves | nsubj |
| 3 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 scooter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | scooter | scooter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaves | obj |
| 6 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 3 leaves | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 rain | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rain | det |
| 9 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaves | obl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 winter | det |
| 11 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaves | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaves | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | a boy | boy's scooter | the rain | winter | outside property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent scooter=Theme in rain=Location |
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 is likely to happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 likely | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 likely | cop |
| 3 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 happen | mark |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 likely | xcomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 likely | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | likely property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | happen | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It will stay exactly like new for years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stay | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 stay | aux |
| 3 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 3 stay | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 new | case |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stay | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 years | case |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stay | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | future | It | year | like new; exactly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
It will get stronger from the water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 get | xcomp |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | future | It | the water | strong property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from water=Destination |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
It will rust and wear out sooner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rust | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 rust | aux |
| 3 | rust | rust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wear | cc |
| 5 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rust | conj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 wear | compound:prt |
| 7 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 wear | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rust | future | It | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | wear out | infinitive | soon property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
It will become lighter and faster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 become | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 become | aux |
| 3 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 become | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 faster | cc |
| 6 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 lighter | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | future | It | light property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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