Test 1 · ★ · Washing your body and caring for your hair
A boy in Texas played football all afternoon in the heat. What should he do that evening?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: play, do · To what, where: football, heat
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 76 «Washing your body and caring for your hair» 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 Texas played football all afternoon in the heat.
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 | 5 played | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Texas | case |
| 4 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 played | obj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 afternoon | det |
| 8 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 played | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 heat | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 heat | det |
| 11 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 played | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 played | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | a boy in Texas | football | the heat | afternoon | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=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 should he do that evening?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 evening | det |
| 6 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should | boy | evening | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Wait until the weekend to wash
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | until | until | ADP | _ | 4 weekend | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 weekend | det |
| 4 | weekend | weekend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 wash | mark |
| 6 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | weekend | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wash | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Spray on deodorant instead of washing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 deodorant | case |
| 3 | deodorant | deodorant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Spray | nmod |
| 4 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 6 washing | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 instead | fixed |
| 6 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Spray | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Just change his shirt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 change | advmod |
| 2 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 shirt | nmod:poss |
| 4 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 change | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | imperative | you not said here | his shirt | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Have a wash or shower with soap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wash | det |
| 3 | wash | wash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Have | obj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 shower | cc |
| 5 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wash | conj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 soap | case |
| 7 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wash | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | imperative | you not said here | a wash or shower | with soap | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wash=Patient |
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