Test 6 · ★★ · Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours
Poppy wants to give her class something for Christmas next year without making anyone feel they owe her. What fits?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Poppy, anyone, they · What happens: want, give, make, feel, owe, fit · To what, where: class, anyone, Poppy
This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 492 «Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours» 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: Poppy wants to give her class something for Christmas next year without making anyone feel they owe her.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Poppy | Poppy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 give | mark |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wants | xcomp |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 class | nmod:poss |
| 6 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 year | case |
| 9 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 year | compound |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 year | amod |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 something | nmod |
| 12 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 13 making | mark |
| 13 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 give | advcl |
| 14 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 making | obj |
| 15 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 making | xcomp |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 owe | nsubj |
| 17 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 feel | ccomp |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 owe | iobj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Poppy | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | Poppy not said here | Poppy's class | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent class=Recipient something=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | Poppy not said here | anyone | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feel | infinitive | anyone not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | owe | present | they | Poppy | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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 fits?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 fits | nsubj |
| 2 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 fits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | present | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A designer bag for each kid
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bag | det |
| 2 | designer | designer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bag | compound |
| 3 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 kid | case |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 kid | det |
| 6 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bag | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A new phone for her best mates
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 phone | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 phone | amod |
| 3 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 mates | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mates | nmod:poss |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 mates | amod |
| 7 | mates | mate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 phone | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Homemade cards for everyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Homemade | homemade | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cards | amod |
| 2 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 everyone | case |
| 4 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 cards | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Gold pens with names on them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pens | compound |
| 2 | pens | pen | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 names | case |
| 4 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pens | nmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 names | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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