Test 11 · Blocking, muting and walking away
Connor comes back from kicking the ball and passes the level. Why did it help?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Connor, level · What happens: come back, kick, pass, help · To what, where: ball, level
This is test 11 of lesson 481 «Blocking, muting and walking away» 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: Connor comes back from kicking the ball and passes the level.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Connor | Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 comes | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 5 kicking | mark |
| 5 | kicking | kick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 comes | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ball | det |
| 7 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kicking | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 passes | cc |
| 9 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 comes | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 level | det |
| 11 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 passes | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 comes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | present | Connor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | kick | gerund | Connor not said here | the ball | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ball=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pass | present | Connor not said here | the level | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme level=Trajectory |
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: Why did it help?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 help | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 help | nsubj |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past · do-support | level | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The tablet cooled down while he was outside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tablet | det |
| 2 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | cooled | cool | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tablet | acl |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 cooled | compound:prt |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 outside | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 outside | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 outside | cop |
| 8 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 3 cooled | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cool down | participle | the tablet not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | past | he | outside property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Moving burns off the anger so you can think
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 burns | nsubj |
| 2 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 anger | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 anger | det |
| 5 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 burns | obl |
| 6 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 9 think | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 think | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 think | aux |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 burns | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | burn off | present | the anger | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent anger=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | can | you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Kicking makes you cleverer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kicking | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | cleverer | clever | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 makes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | gerund | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | make | present | you | clever property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
Option 4
The ball somehow taught him the level
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ball | det |
| 2 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taught | nsubj |
| 3 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 4 taught | advmod |
| 4 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 taught | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 level | det |
| 7 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taught | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past | the ball | the level | him = he | somehow property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient level=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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