Test 8 · Eyes, backs and thumbs
Mum: «You've been on for an hour, out you go, kick a ball.» Mia: «fine». What did Mia find?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, you, Mia · What happens: be, go, kick, find · To what, where: ball
This is test 8 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
Sentence 1: Mum: «You've been on for an hour, out you go, kick a ball.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hour | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 hour | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 hour | punct |
| 4 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 hour | nsubj |
| 5 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hour | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 hour | cop |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 hour | case |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 hour | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hour | det |
| 10 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hour | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 kick | punct |
| 16 | kick | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 ball | det |
| 18 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kick | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 hour | punct |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 hour | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present · perfect | Mum | on a hour | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | kick in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | a ball | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ball=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: Mia: «fine».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fine | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 fine | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 fine | punct |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 fine | punct |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fine | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: What did Mia find?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 find | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 3 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 find | nsubj |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · do-support | Mia | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
She came back with fresh energy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 energy | case |
| 5 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 energy | amod |
| 6 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | She | with fresh energy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Nothing changed at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Nothing | acl |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 changed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | participle | all | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
She was too tired to play again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tired | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tired | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 tired | advmod |
| 4 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 play | mark |
| 6 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tired | advcl |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 play | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | She | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive | She not said here | again | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
She forgot how to play the game
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 forgot | nsubj |
| 2 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 play | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 play | mark |
| 5 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 forgot | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 game | det |
| 7 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 play | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | She | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not play | to-infinitive | She not said here | the game | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=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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