Test 1 · ★ · Your body and how you look
A boy in Cardiff wears braces and someone calls him «metal mouth» every day. What should he do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, someone · What happens: wear, call, do · To what, where: braces, boy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 88 «Your body and how you look» 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 Cardiff wears braces and someone calls him «metal mouth» every day.
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 wears | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Cardiff | case |
| 4 | Cardiff | Cardiff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | braces | brace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wears | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 calls | cc |
| 8 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 calls | nsubj |
| 9 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wears | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 calls | obj |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 mouth | punct |
| 12 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mouth | compound |
| 13 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 calls | xcomp |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 mouth | punct |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 calls | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wears | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | present | a boy in Cardiff | braces | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent brace=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | present | someone | boy | day | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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 should he do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should | boy | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Tell a trusted adult
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 | 4 adult | det |
| 3 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 adult | amod |
| 4 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tell | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | a trusted adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Stop smiling for ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | smiling | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Stop | xcomp |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 ever | case |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 2 smiling | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | imperative | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | smile | gerund | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for ever=Recipient |
Option 3
Call the other boy names
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 names | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 names | amod |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 names | compound |
| 5 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Call | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | imperative | you not said here | the other boy names | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient |
Option 4
Take the braces off himself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 braces | det |
| 3 | braces | brace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Take | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | the braces | off himself = he | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent brace=Theme off himself=Initial_Location |
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