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Test 11 · The new kid and the first day

Lily's nervous about starting a new club. What does her mum's story suggest?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: story · What happens: start, suggest · To what, where: new club

This is test 11 of lesson 465 «The new kid and the first day» 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: Lily's nervous about starting a new club.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 nervous	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Lily	case
3	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 starting	mark
5	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 nervous	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 club	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 club	amod
8	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starting	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 nervous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	gerund		a new club					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Eventuality

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 does her mum's story suggest?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 suggest	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 suggest	aux
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 story	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 mum	case
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 suggest	nsubj
7	suggest	suggest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 suggest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	present · do-support	Lily's mum's story						vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

First days are always fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 days	amod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fun	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fun	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 fun	advmod
5	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	First days					always, fun property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The first day is hard, but it gets better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hard	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	cop
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gets	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 gets	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gets	nsubj
9	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	conj
10	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the first day					hard property	tree rules
2	get	present	it					good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Never try new places

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 try	advmod
2	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 places	amod
4	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 try	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not try	imperative	you not said here	new places					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Only grown-ups find it hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 ups	advmod
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ups	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 grown	punct
4	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 find	nsubj
5	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 find	obj
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 find	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	present	grown ups	it				hard property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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