Test 1 · Sleep and school mornings
«I only play till midnight on school nights, it's fine, I'm not even tired». Which is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: play, be, not be
This is test 1 of lesson 418 «Sleep and school mornings» 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: «I only play till midnight on school nights, it's fine, I'm not even tired».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 play | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 play | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 play | advmod |
| 4 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | till | till | ADP | _ | 6 midnight | case |
| 6 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 play | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 nights | case |
| 8 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nights | compound |
| 9 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 play | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fine | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fine | expl |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fine | cop |
| 13 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 play | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tired | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 tired | nsubj |
| 16 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 tired | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 tired | advmod |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 tired | advmod |
| 19 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fine | parataxis |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 tired | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 play | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play in a quote | present | I | midnight; night | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | I not said here | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present | I | tired property | tree rules |
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: Which is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Games give the brain rest like sleep does
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 give | nsubj |
| 2 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brain | det |
| 4 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 give | obj |
| 5 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 give | xcomp |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 sleep | case |
| 7 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rest | obl |
| 8 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 give | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Games | the brain | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rest | infinitive | Games not said here | like sleep | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | present | Games not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Midnight is a normal bedtime for 9-year-olds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bedtime | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bedtime | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bedtime | det |
| 4 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bedtime | amod |
| 5 | bedtime | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 olds | case |
| 7 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 year | nummod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 9 | punct |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 olds | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 year | punct |
| 11 | olds | old | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bedtime | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Midnight | a normal bedtime | for year olds | tree rules |
Option 3
If you don't feel tired you don't need sleep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 feel | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feel | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 feel | advmod |
| 5 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 need | advcl |
| 6 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feel | xcomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 need | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 need | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 need | advmod |
| 10 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 need | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feel a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | tired property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not need | present · do-support | you | sleep | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sleep=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Too little sleep still makes school harder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 2 little | advmod |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sleep | amod |
| 3 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 makes | advmod |
| 5 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 makes | obj |
| 7 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 makes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | little sleep | school | still | hard property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset school=Product |
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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