Test 9 · My body belongs to me

How long should a surprise be kept?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: keep · To what, where: surprise

This is test 9 of lesson 57 «My body belongs to me» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 kept	advmod
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 kept	aux
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 surprise	det
5	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	nsubj:pass
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 kept	aux:pass
7	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	should · passive		a surprise				long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

The options

Option 1

Forever, like any other secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forever	forever	ADV	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Forever	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 secret	case
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 secret	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 secret	amod
6	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Forever	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Only a short time, until the happy moment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 time	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
6	until	until	ADP	_	9 moment	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moment	det
8	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 moment	amod
9	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Until an adult asks about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Until	until	SCONJ	_	4 asks	mark
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	nsubj
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	a adult					about it	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 4

As long as the person who told it to you wants it kept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADV	_	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 kept	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 wants	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wants	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 person	acl:relcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 told	obl
11	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 kept	aux:pass
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wants	obj
13	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the person	person	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to you=Recipient
2	keep	present · passive						long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»

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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