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Test 4 · Eyes, ears and moving your body

A boy in Wellington needs to talk to a deaf friend. What works best?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: need, talk, work

This is test 4 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

Sentence 1: A boy in Wellington needs to talk to a deaf friend.

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 needs	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Wellington	case
4	Wellington	Wellington	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 talk	mark
7	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 needs	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 friend	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 friend	det
10	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 friend	amod
11	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talk	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 needs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	a boy in Wellington						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	talk not said to happen	to-infinitive	a boy in Wellington not said here					to a deaf friend	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to friend=Co-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.

Sentence 2: What works best?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 works	nsubj
2	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 works	advmod
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 works	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present						well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Shouting loudly in his ear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 Shouting	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 ear	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 ear	nmod:poss
5	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shouting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	gerund				his ear		loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Whispering so others do not hear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whispering	whisper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	6 hear	mark
3	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hear	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hear	advmod
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Whispering	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not hear	present · do-support	others						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Talking very fast from behind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 fast	advmod
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Talking	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 behind	case
5	behind	behind	ADV	_	3 fast	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	gerund						fast property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Facing him and speaking clearly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Facing	face	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Facing	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 speaking	cc
4	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Facing	conj
5	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	4 speaking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	face	gerund			him = he				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination
2	speak speech: other	gerund						clearly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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