Test 1 · Trusted adults and asking for help
A boy in Cork, Ireland, sees smoke pouring out of a neighbour's kitchen window. What number should he ask an adult to call, or call himself?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, smoke, number · What happens: see, pour out, ask, call · To what, where: smoke, kitchen window, adult · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 of lesson 56 «Trusted adults and asking for help» 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: A boy in Cork, Ireland, sees smoke pouring out of a neighbour's kitchen window.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sees | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Cork | case |
| 4 | Cork | Cork | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ireland | punct |
| 6 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Cork | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 boy | punct |
| 8 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sees | obj |
| 10 | pouring | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 smoke | acl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 window | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 window | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 neighbour | det |
| 14 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 window | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 neighbour | case |
| 16 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 window | compound |
| 17 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pouring | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sees | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | a boy in Cork and Ireland | smoke | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smoke=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | pour out | gerund | smoke not said here | a neighbour's kitchen window | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient |
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 number should he ask an adult to call, or call himself?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 ask | obl |
| 2 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 ask | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ask | nsubj |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 adult | det |
| 7 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 call | mark |
| 9 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ask | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 call | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 call | cc |
| 12 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ask | conj |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 call | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | should | number | a adult | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | call not said to happen | to-infinitive | number not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | call | infinitive | number not said here | adult | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient |
The options
Option 1
111
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 111 | 111 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
999
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 999 | 999 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
000
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 000 | 000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
911
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 911 | 911 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 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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