Test 3 · ★ · Screen-time rules and arguments
Ollie yawning in maths, teacher: «late night again?» What most likely caused it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: cause · To what, where: teacher
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 421 «Screen-time rules and arguments» 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: Ollie yawning in maths, teacher: «late night again?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 yawning | compound |
| 2 | yawning | yawning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 maths | case |
| 4 | maths | math | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 yawning | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 teacher | punct |
| 6 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 maths | conj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 night | punct |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 night | punct |
| 9 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 night | amod |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 yawning | appos |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 night | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 yawning | punct |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 yawning | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: What most likely caused it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 caused | obj |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 likely | advmod |
| 3 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 4 caused | advmod |
| 4 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 caused | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 caused | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | teacher | likely property | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer what=Theme it=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Doing too much homework the night before
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 much | advmod |
| 3 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 homework | amod |
| 4 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Doing | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Doing | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | before | before | ADV | _ | 1 Doing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | gerund | much homework | night | before property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Eventuality |
Option 2
Eating too much breakfast that day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 much | advmod |
| 3 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 breakfast | amod |
| 4 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Eating | obj |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Eating | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | gerund | much breakfast | day | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient |
Option 3
Sitting too close to the classroom window
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 close | advmod |
| 3 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Sitting | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 window | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 window | det |
| 6 | classroom | classroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 window | compound |
| 7 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 close | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | close | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location close=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Playing on a hidden tablet at night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 tablet | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tablet | det |
| 4 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tablet | amod |
| 5 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Playing | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Playing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | gerund | a hidden tablet | night | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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