Test 13 · Eyes, ears and moving your body

can't read the board from the back, prob nothing

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: not read · To what, where: board, back

This is test 13 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	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 read	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 read	advmod
3	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 board	det
5	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 back	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 back	det
8	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nothing	punct
10	prob	prob	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nothing	compound
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 back	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not read	can		the board		the back			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent board=Topic from back=Source

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

Only grown-ups need glasses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 ups	advmod
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ups	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 grown	punct
4	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	nsubj
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	need	present	grown ups	glasses					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot glass=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell a teacher or parent, you might need glasses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 parent	cc
5	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 teacher	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 need	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 need	nsubj
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 need	aux
9	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	parataxis
10	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a teacher or parent				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
2	need	might	you	glasses					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot glass=Theme

Option 3

Sit at the back so eyes work more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 back	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 back	det
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sit	obl
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 work	advmod
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 work	nsubj
7	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Sit	advcl
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 work	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	imperative	you not said here			the back			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at back=Location
2	work	present	eyes						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Squint harder every day, it trains the eyes to see better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squint	squint	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 harder	obl:unmarked
2	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 day	amod
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trains	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 trains	nsubj
7	trains	train	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eyes	det
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 trains	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 see	mark
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 trains	advcl
12	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	train	present	Squint	the eyes			day		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	Squint not said here					well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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