Test 1 · Eyes, ears and moving your body

Why do glasses help a child do better at school?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: glasses, child · What happens: help, do · To what, where: child, school

This is test 1 of lesson 87 «Eyes, ears and moving your body» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 help	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
3	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 help	nsubj
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 help	obj
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	xcomp
8	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 do	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 school	case
10	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present · do-support	glasses	a child					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	do	infinitive	a child not said here			school		well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

They let the child see clearly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	obj
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
6	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	5 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	They	the child					tree rules
2	see	infinitive	the child not said here					clearly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

They make the board come closer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 board	det
4	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	conj
6	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	They	the board					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset board=Product
2	come	present	They not said here					close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They make the child cleverer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	cleverer	clever	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	They	the child				clever property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset child=Product

Option 4

They protect eyes from germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 protect	nsubj
2	protect	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 protect	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 germs	case
5	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 protect	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	present	They	eyes				from germs	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Beneficiary from germ=Theme

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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