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Test 1 · The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door

«ball's gone over Grimshaw's again, just hop the fence, he won't know». Better idea?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ball, Grimshaw · What happens: be, hop, not know · To what, where: Grimshaw, fence

This is test 1 of lesson 473 «The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door» 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: «ball's gone over Grimshaw's again, just hop the fence, he won't know».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
2	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	cop
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	6 Grimshaw	case
6	Grimshaw	Grimshaw	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Grimshaw	case
8	again	again	ADV	_	4 gone	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hop	punct
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 hop	advmod
11	hop	hop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fence	det
13	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hop	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 know	nsubj
16	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 know	aux
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 know	advmod
18	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hop	conj
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	ball			Grimshaw	again	gone property	tree rules
2	hop in a quote	infinitive		the fence					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fence=Trajectory
3	not know in a quote	future	Grimshaw						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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: Better idea?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 idea	amod
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 idea	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Kick another ball to knock it out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kick	kick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 ball	det
3	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kick	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 knock	mark
5	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Kick	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knock	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 knock	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	imperative	you not said here	another ball					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ball=Patient
2	knock out	to-infinitive	you not said here	ball					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

Send the smallest kid over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kid	det
3	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 kid	amod
4	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Send	obj
5	over	over	ADV	_	1 Send	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	imperative	you not said here	the smallest kid				over property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Knock and ask for it back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knock	knock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 ask	cc
3	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Knock	conj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ask	obl
6	back	back	ADV	_	3 ask	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	imperative	you not said here						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	ask back speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here					for it	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Hop over quickly while he naps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hop	hop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	over	over	ADV	_	3 quickly	advmod
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Hop	advmod
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 naps	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 naps	nsubj
6	naps	nap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hop	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hop	imperative	you not said here					quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	nap	present	he						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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