Test 4 · A stranger's story
Knock at the door, you're home alone: «Water board, open up, quick job.» What do you say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: knock, be, water, open up, say · To what, where: board · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 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: Knock at the door, you're home alone: «Water board, open up, quick job.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Knock | knock | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 door | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Knock | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 home | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 home | nsubj |
| 7 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 home | cop |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 1 Knock | parataxis |
| 9 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 8 home | advmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Water | punct |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 Water | punct |
| 12 | Water | water | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Knock | conj |
| 13 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Water | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 open | punct |
| 15 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 Water | parataxis |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 open | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 job | punct |
| 18 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 job | amod |
| 19 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 open | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Knock | punct |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 1 Knock | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | imperative | you not said here | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | alone, home property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | water in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | board | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent board=Destination | ||||
| 4 | open up in a quote | infinitive | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 do you say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Wait, I'll open the back door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 open | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 open | nsubj |
| 4 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 open | aux |
| 5 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 door | compound |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 open | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | open | future | I | the back door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
Option 2
Show me your badge, then come in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Show | iobj |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 badge | nmod:poss |
| 4 | badge | badge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Show | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 come | advmod |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Show | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | imperative | you not said here | your badge | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient badge=Topic | |||
| 2 | come in | infinitive | you not said here | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | badge | your | nom badge «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Come back when my mum's home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Come | advmod |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 home | advmod |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mum | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 home | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 mum | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Come | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | imperative | you not said here | my mum's home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Come in, the taps are upstairs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADV | _ | 1 Come | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 are | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 taps | det |
| 5 | taps | tap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 are | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 7 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 6 are | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | does | present | the taps | upstairs property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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