Test 6 · ★ · Time, routines and sleep

Why do people use alarm clocks?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: use · To what, where: alarm clocks

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 39 «Time, routines and sleep» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 use	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 use	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	nsubj
4	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clocks	compound
6	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · do-support	people	alarm clocks					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Patient

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.

The options

Option 1

To tell them when to eat lunch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 tell	mark
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 eat	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tell	xcomp
7	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive		lunch					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient

Option 2

To make the night pass more quickly while you sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pass	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obl:unmarked
5	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 quickly	advmod
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	5 pass	advmod
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 sleep	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 sleep	nsubj
10	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pass	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		night		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	pass	present			quickly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sleep	present	you			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

To help them fall asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 help	mark
2	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 help	obj
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 help	xcomp
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fall	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	to-infinitive		them = they					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	fall	infinitive	them = they not said here					asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To wake at the same planned time every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 wake	mark
2	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	7 time	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
6	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wake	obl
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wake	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	to-infinitive					day; time		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	plan	participle							vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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