Test 9 · Eyes, ears and moving your body

cant read the board from the back, its all blurry

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cant · What happens: read · To what, where: board, back

This is test 9 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	cant	cant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 read	nsubj
2	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 board	det
4	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 read	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 back	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 back	det
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 read	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 all	punct
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 all	nmod:poss
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 read	ccomp
11	blurry	blurry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 all	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	cant	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

Copy from your friend instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 friend	case
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friend	nmod:poss
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Copy	obl
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Copy	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	imperative	you not said here					from your friend; instead property	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Just sit there and say nothing, it'll get better on its own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 sit	advmod
2	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 sit	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 say	cc
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 sit	conj
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 say	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 get	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 get	nsubj
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 get	aux
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sit	conj
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 get	xcomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 own	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 own	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	imperative	you not said here		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	nothing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
3	get	future	it			good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell a teacher and a parent, you may need an eye test

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	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 parent	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 parent	det
6	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 teacher	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 need	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 need	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 need	aux
10	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	parataxis
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 test	det
12	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 test	compound
13	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 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 and a parent				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
2	need	may	you	a eye test					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot test=Theme

Option 4

Squint harder every day

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	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 harder	obl:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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