Test 8 · Sleep and school mornings
Zara: «my console turns off at 8 by itself, so sad». Why can that help?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Zara, that · What happens: turn off, help · To what, where: 8
This is test 8 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: Zara: «my console turns off at 8 by itself, so sad».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zara | Zara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 turns | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 turns | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 turns | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 console | nmod:poss |
| 5 | console | console | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turns | nsubj |
| 6 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 turns | compound:prt |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 8 | case |
| 9 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 turns | obl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 itself | case |
| 11 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 turns | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sad | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 sad | advmod |
| 14 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 turns | parataxis |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 sad | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 turns | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn off in a quote | present | Zara | 8 | by console | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: Why can that help?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 help | nsubj |
| 4 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Why | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | can | that | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
An automatic rule helps when it's hard to stop yourself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rule | det |
| 2 | automatic | automatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rule | amod |
| 3 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 helps | nsubj |
| 4 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 hard | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hard | expl |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hard | cop |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 helps | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 stop | mark |
| 10 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hard | xcomp |
| 11 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 stop | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | a automatic rule | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | a automatic rule not said here | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stop | to-infinitive | a automatic rule not said here | yourself | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality yourself=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The console needs to rest at night or it wears out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 console | det |
| 2 | console | console | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needs | nsubj |
| 3 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 rest | mark |
| 5 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 needs | xcomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rest | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 wears | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wears | nsubj |
| 10 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 needs | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 wears | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | the console | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rest not said to happen | to-infinitive | the console not said here | night | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wear out | present | console | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
It saves her from ever playing again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saves | nsubj |
| 2 | saves | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saves | obj |
| 4 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 6 playing | mark |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 playing | advmod |
| 6 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 saves | advcl |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 playing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | present | It | her = she | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | play | gerund | ever; again | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Her friends are all offline by eight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friends | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 offline | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 offline | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 offline | advmod |
| 5 | offline | offline | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 eight | case |
| 7 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 offline | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Her friends | by eight; all, offline property | tree rules |
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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