Test 8 · Sun safety

Why do Australian schools often have a rule of no hat, no play?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Australian schools, hat · What happens: do, have, rule · To what, where: rule

This is test 8 of lesson 46 «Sun safety» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 have	advcl
3	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 schools	amod
4	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 have	advmod
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rule	det
8	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 hat	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 hat	det
11	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rule	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 play	punct
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 play	det
14	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rule	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	Australian schools not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	Australian schools	a rule of no hat and no play	often property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient
3	rule		no hat			nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Hats keep the playground cleaner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cleaner	det
4	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cleaner	compound
5	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Hats	the playground cleaner					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaner=Theme

Option 2

Hats help children run faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 help	nsubj
2	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 help	obj
4	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 help	xcomp
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	Hats	children					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	run	infinitive	children not said here					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Hats keep children warm on cold winter mornings in the playground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obj
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 mornings	case
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mornings	amod
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mornings	compound
8	mornings	morning	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 playground	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 playground	det
11	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Hats	children		the playground	morning	warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Theme in playground=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Australia has very strong UV and lots of skin cancer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 strong	advmod
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 UV	amod
5	UV	ultra-violet	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lots	cc
7	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 UV	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 cancer	case
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cancer	compound
10	cancer	cancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lots	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Australia	strong UV and lots of skin cancer					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ultra-violet=Patient

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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