Test 15 · ★ · Eyes, nose and using the toilet

teacher said wait till break but i really gotta go

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, i · What happens: say, wait, go · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 78 «Eyes, nose and using the toilet» 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	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
4	till	till	ADP	_	5 break	case
5	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wait	obl
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 go	cc
7	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 go	nsubj
8	really	really	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
9	gotta	gotta	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	teacher		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wait	infinitive		till break	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	infinitive	i		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

Hold it all day, it is good practice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hold	obj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 practice	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 practice	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 practice	cop
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 practice	amod
9	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	it			day		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is a	present	it	good practice					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Ask again politely, holding it a long time can cause an infection

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	again	again	ADV	_	1 Ask	advmod
3	politely	politely	ADV	_	1 Ask	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 holding	punct
5	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 cause	csubj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 holding	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holding	obj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 cause	aux
11	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	parataxis
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 infection	det
13	infection	infection	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cause	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		again	politely property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hold	gerund		it	time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	cause	can	holding	a infection			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition infection=Patient

Option 3

Drink more water so it goes away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drink	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 goes	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 goes	nsubj
6	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Drink	advcl
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 goes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	imperative	you not said here	more water					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	go away	present	water					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Never ask, it is rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 ask	advmod
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rude	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rude	cop
6	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ask	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					rude property	tree rules

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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