Test 5 · Walking away
Teacher: «Jake, why did you leave PE without asking?» Best honest answer?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: leave, ask · To what, where: PE
This is test 5 of lesson 371 «Walking away» 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: Teacher: «Jake, why did you leave PE without asking?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 Jake | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 Jake | punct |
| 4 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Teacher | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 leave | punct |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 leave | advmod |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 leave | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 leave | nsubj |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Teacher | parataxis |
| 10 | PE | pe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leave | obj |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 asking | mark |
| 12 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 leave | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Teacher | punct |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 1 Teacher | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave in a quote | past · do-support | you | PE | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | gerund | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: Best honest answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 answer | amod |
| 2 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 answer | amod |
| 3 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 answer | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
I needed the toilet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 needed | nsubj |
| 2 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 toilet | det |
| 4 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 needed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | past | I | the toilet | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot toilet=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
I was really angry and needed to cool off before I did something stupid
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 angry | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 angry | cop |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 angry | advmod |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 needed | cc |
| 6 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 angry | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 cool | mark |
| 8 | cool | cool | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 needed | xcomp |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 cool | compound:prt |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 did | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 did | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cool | advcl |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 did | obj |
| 14 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 something | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need | past | I not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cool off not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | do | past | I | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
Option 3
I was bored of the game
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bored | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bored | aux:pass |
| 3 | bored | bore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 game | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 game | det |
| 6 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bored | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bore | past · passive | I | of the game | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Freddie told me to go and get out of the hall or he would tell on me
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Freddie | Freddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 get | cc |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 hall | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 hall | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hall | det |
| 11 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 tell | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 tell | aux |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Freddie | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Freddie not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get out | infinitive | Freddie not said here | the hall | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | would | Freddie | on me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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