Test 8 · ★ · Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison
★★★ Oisín's da works two weeks on the rig, then two weeks home, starting on the rig on 1 March. Is he home or away on 20 March?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: work, start, be · To what, where: rig, 20
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 519 «Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison» 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: ★★★ Oisín's da works two weeks on the rig, then two weeks home, starting on the rig on 1 March.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 works | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| 4 | Oisín | Oisín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 da | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Oisín | case |
| 6 | da | da | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 works | nsubj |
| 7 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 weeks | nummod |
| 9 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 works | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 rig | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rig | det |
| 12 | rig | rig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 weeks | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 weeks | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 weeks | advmod |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 weeks | nummod |
| 16 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 works | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 works | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 starting | punct |
| 19 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 works | advcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 rig | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rig | det |
| 22 | rig | rig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 starting | obl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 March | case |
| 24 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 March | nummod |
| 25 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 starting | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 works | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | ★ | week | home property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | start | gerund | ★ not said here | the rig | march | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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: Is he home or away on 20 March?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 away | cop |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 away | nsubj |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 away | advmod |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 away | cc |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 20 | case |
| 7 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 away | obl |
| 8 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 20 | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 away | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | ★ | 20 March | away, home property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Half and half
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 half | cc |
| 3 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 1 Half | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
On the plane
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 plane | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 plane | det |
| 3 | plane | plane | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Home | home | NOUN | 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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