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Test 5 · Adults who help and adults who don't

Lily's dad wrote dates in a notebook before the meeting. Why?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: write · To what, where: dates, notebook

This is test 5 of lesson 392 «Adults who help and adults who don't» 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: Lily's dad wrote dates in a notebook before the meeting.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Lily	case
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrote	nsubj
4	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wrote	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 notebook	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 notebook	det
8	notebook	notebook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrote	obl
9	before	before	ADP	_	11 meeting	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 meeting	det
11	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrote	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wrote	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	Lily's dad	dates		a notebook	before the meeting		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent date=Theme in notebook=Destination

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: 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

To make the meeting longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 meeting	det
4	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the meeting					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meeting=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

So the school could see it kept happening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 see	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 school	det
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kept	nsubj
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 see	ccomp
8	happening	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	could	the school						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	keep	past	school						tree rules
3	happen	gerund	school not said here						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

So he wouldn't forget to bring his coffee to the meeting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 forget	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forget	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 forget	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 forget	advmod
5	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 bring	mark
7	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 forget	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 coffee	nmod:poss
9	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bring	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 meeting	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 meeting	det
12	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not forget	would	he						tree rules
2	bring	to-infinitive	he not said here	his coffee		the meeting			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coffee=Theme to meeting=Destination

Option 4

To show off his handwriting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 show	mark
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 show	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 handwriting	nmod:poss
5	handwriting	handwriting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show off	to-infinitive		his handwriting					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent handwriting=Recipient
2	handwrite		his = he						nom handwriting «communication transitive»: poss=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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