Test 10 · Eyes, backs and thumbs

Teacher: «Which is the healthiest way to play for an hour?»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Teacher · What happens: be, play · To what, where: healthiest way

This is test 10 of lesson 420 «Eyes, backs and thumbs» 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	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 way	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 way	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 way	punct
4	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 way	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 way	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
7	healthiest	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 way	amod
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 play	mark
10	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 way	acl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 hour	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hour	det
13	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 play	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 way	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Teacher	the healthiest way					tree rules
2	play in a quote	to-infinitive					hour		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ← Mova's choice

Hunched close to the screen, no break

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunched	hunch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Hunched	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 screen	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 screen	det
5	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hunched	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 break	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 break	det
8	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 screen	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunch	participle			the screen and no break			close property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to screen=Recipient

Option 2

Lying on the floor in the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 floor	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 floor	det
4	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lying	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 dark	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dark	det
7	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund				the floor		in the dark	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Sitting well, with water and a break

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Sitting	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 water	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 break	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 break	det
8	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund						with water and a break; well property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Standing on one leg the whole time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 leg	case
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 leg	nummod
4	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Standing	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Standing	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund				one leg	time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location

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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