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Test 7 · ★★★ · Family game night

Ruby's dad dances like «a wardrobe falling down the stairs». Was the night a failure?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, wardrobe · What happens: dance, fall down, be · To what, where: stairs, night

This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 425 «Family game night» 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: Ruby's dad dances like «a wardrobe falling down the stairs».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ruby	case
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dances	nsubj
4	dances	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 wardrobe	case
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 wardrobe	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wardrobe	det
8	wardrobe	wardrobe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dances	obl
9	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 wardrobe	acl
10	down	down	ADP	_	12 stairs	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stairs	det
12	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 falling	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 falling	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dances	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	present	Ruby's dad					like a wardrobe	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall down in a quote	gerund	a wardrobe not said here	the stairs					vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient stair=Result

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: Was the night a failure?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 night	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 failure	compound
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 failure	det
5	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 failure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the night					tree rules

The options

Option 1

Yes, he should have refused to play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 refused	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 refused	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 refused	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 refused	aux
6	refused	refuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 play	mark
8	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 refused	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	should · perfect	he						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not play	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, laughing together was the best part

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 part	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 part	csubj
4	together	together	ADV	_	3 laughing	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 part	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 part	det
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 part	amod
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	gerund						together property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	laughing	the best part					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, because he lost every round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 lost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lost	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 lost	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lost	nsubj
5	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 round	det
7	round	round	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	he	every round					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent round=Eventuality

Option 4

No, because he secretly won in the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 won	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 won	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 won	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 won	nsubj
5	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	6 won	advmod
6	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 won	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	he				in the end	secretly property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in end=Eventuality

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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