Test 4 · Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals
Ella yawns all day at school and keeps dropping things. What might she need?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ella · What happens: yawn, keep, drop, need · To what, where: school, things
This is test 4 of lesson 9 «Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals» 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: Ella yawns all day at school and keeps dropping things.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 yawns | nsubj |
| 2 | yawns | yawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 yawns | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 school | case |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 yawns | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 keeps | cc |
| 8 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 yawns | conj |
| 9 | dropping | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 keeps | xcomp |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dropping | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 yawns | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yawn | present | Ella | school | day | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | keep | present | Ella not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | drop | gerund | Ella not said here | things | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
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 might she need?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 need | obj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 need | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 need | nsubj |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 need | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | might | Ella | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
More sleep at night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 sleep | amod |
| 2 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sleep | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
More screen time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 time | amod |
| 2 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | compound |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Less water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 water | amod |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
More sugar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 sugar | amod |
| 2 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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