Test 10 · ★★ · When a parent has died
★★★ Bodhi looked at the sea on Saturday. He paddled exactly one week later, and swam two weeks after that. On what day of the week did he swim?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: look, paddle, swim
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 518 «When a parent has died» 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: ★★★ Bodhi looked at the sea on Saturday.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Bodhi | compound |
| 4 | Bodhi | Bodhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | flat |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Saturday | case |
| 10 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | ★ | saturday | at the sea | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sea=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: He paddled exactly one week later, and swam two weeks after that.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 paddled | nsubj |
| 2 | paddled | paddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 4 one | advmod |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 week | nummod |
| 5 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 later | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 paddled | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 swam | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 swam | cc |
| 9 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 paddled | conj |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 weeks | nummod |
| 11 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 swam | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 that | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 swam | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 paddled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paddle | past | ★ | late property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | swim | past | ★ not said here | after that; week | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Sentence 3: On what day of the week did he swim?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swim | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 week | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 week | det |
| 6 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 swim | aux |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 swim | nsubj |
| 9 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 swim | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past · do-support | ★ | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Monday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Saturday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Friday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Sunday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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