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Test 5 · ★★★ · Showing off

Maddie: «bet I can carry the whole pile of mats on my own». Teacher: «Two people, please.» Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: carry · To what, where: whole pile, own

This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 390 «Showing off» 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: Maddie: «bet I can carry the whole pile of mats on my own».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 carry	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 carry	punct
4	bet	bet	SCONJ	_	7 carry	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 carry	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 carry	aux
7	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Maddie	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pile	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pile	amod
10	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carry	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 mats	case
12	mats	mat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pile	nmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 own	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 own	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 carry	obl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 carry	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Maddie	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry in a quote	can	I	the whole pile of mats		my own			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pile=Theme

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: Teacher: «Two people, please.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 people	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 people	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 people	punct
4	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 people	nummod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 please	punct
7	please	please	INTJ	_	5 people	discourse
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 people	punct
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 people	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 3: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Teachers like to be in charge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 like	nsubj
2	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 charge	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 charge	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 charge	case
6	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 like	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	Teachers						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	Teachers not said here			charge			tree rules

Option 2

Maddie isn't allowed to touch mats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 allowed	advmod
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 touch	mark
6	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allowed	xcomp
7	mats	mat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		Maddie					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	touch not said to happen	to-infinitive	Maddie not said here	mats					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mat=Co-Theme

Option 3

The mats are worth a lot of money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mats	det
2	mats	mat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 worth	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 worth	cop
4	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worth	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 money	case
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lot	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the mats					worth property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Too heavy a load can pull a muscle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 heavy	advmod
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 load	amod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 load	det
4	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pull	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pull	aux
6	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 muscle	det
8	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pull	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	can	a heavy load	a muscle					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muscle=Theme

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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