Test 1 · A stranger's story
Stranger at the gate: «quick, your mam's in hospital, come with me!» What's the right move?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mam, right move · What happens: be, come · To what, where: hospital
This is test 1 of lesson 446 «A stranger's story» 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: Stranger at the gate: «quick, your mam's in hospital, come with me!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 gate | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gate | det |
| 4 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stranger | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 quick | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 quick | punct |
| 7 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Stranger | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hospital | punct |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mam | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mam | mam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hospital | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hospital | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hospital | case |
| 13 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stranger | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Stranger | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 come | obl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stranger | punct |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stranger | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | your mam | hospital | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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's the right move?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 move | det |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 move | amod |
| 5 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the right move | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Go quickly, it's an emergency
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 emergency | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 emergency | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 emergency | cop |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 emergency | det |
| 7 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | quickly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | a emergency | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Don't go — go to a teacher at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 go | advmod |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 teacher | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 teacher | det |
| 8 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 once | case |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 go | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | you not said here | to a teacher | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to teacher=Initial_Location |
Option 3
Go if the person seems kind and knows your name
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 seems | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 person | det |
| 4 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seems | nsubj |
| 5 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | advcl |
| 6 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 seems | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 knows | cc |
| 8 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 seems | conj |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 name | nmod:poss |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knows | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seem a condition, not said to happen | present | the person | kind property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | present | the person not said here | your name | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | name | your | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
Go only if it's not far
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 far | advmod |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 far | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 far | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 far | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 far | advmod |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not is a condition, not said to happen | present | it | far property | tree rules |
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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