Test 11 · «I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home
In a cartoon a kid hides all the mess in a cupboard and is never found out. What happens more often in real life?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: kid · What happens: hide, not find out, happen · To what, where: mess, cartoon, real life
This is test 11 of lesson 427 ««I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home» 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: In a cartoon a kid hides all the mess in a cupboard and is never found out.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hides | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kid | det |
| 5 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hides | nsubj |
| 6 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 mess | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mess | det |
| 9 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hides | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 cupboard | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cupboard | det |
| 12 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hides | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 found | aux:pass |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 found | advmod |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hides | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 found | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hides | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | a kid | all mess | a cartoon | in a cupboard | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mess=Patient in cartoon=Location | ||
| 2 | not find out | present · passive | a kid not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic» |
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: What happens more often in real life?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 often | advmod |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 2 happens | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 life | amod |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happens | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | real life | often property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in life=Location |
The options
Option 1
The mess somehow vanishes on its own overnight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mess | det |
| 2 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vanishes | nsubj |
| 3 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 4 vanishes | advmod |
| 4 | vanishes | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 overnight | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 overnight | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 overnight | amod |
| 8 | overnight | overnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vanishes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | present | the mess | mess's own overnight | somehow property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The cupboard is opened and the mess falls out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cupboard | det |
| 2 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | aux:pass |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 falls | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mess | det |
| 7 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 falls | nsubj |
| 8 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 falls | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present · passive | the cupboard | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fall out | present | the mess | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
The cupboard tidies itself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cupboard | det |
| 2 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tidies | nsubj |
| 3 | tidies | tidy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 tidies | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tidy | present | the cupboard | cupboard | tree rules |
Option 4
Parents never open cupboards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 cupboards | advmod |
| 3 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cupboards | amod |
| 4 | cupboards | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Parents | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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