Test 10 · Boredom, excitement and pride

so bored, raining AGAIN, nothin to do

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: rain, do

This is test 10 of lesson 93 «Boredom, excitement and pride» 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	so	so	ADV	_	2 bored	advmod
2	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nothin	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 raining	punct
4	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 bored	advcl
5	AGAIN	again	ADV	_	4 raining	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nothin	punct
7	nothin	nothin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 nothin	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rain	gerund					again		vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	do	to-infinitive							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Run and shout round the house till it stops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 shout	cc
3	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Run	conj
4	round	round	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shout	obl
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 stops	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stops	nsubj
9	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Run	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shout speech: express	infinitive	you not said here	round the house	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stop	present	house		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Moan until someone fixes it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moan	moan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	until	until	SCONJ	_	4 fixes	mark
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 fixes	nsubj
4	fixes	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Moan	acl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fixes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	present	someone	Moan					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Build a den, draw, read or help cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Build	build	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 den	det
3	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Build	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 draw	punct
5	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Build	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 read	punct
7	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Build	conj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 help	cc
9	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Build	conj
10	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 help	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	build	imperative	you not said here	a den	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset den=Product
2	draw	infinitive	you not said here		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	read	infinitive	you not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	help	infinitive	you not said here		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	cook	infinitive	you not said here		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Nothing to do but sit and wait

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 do	mark
3	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	acl
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 sit	cc
5	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 do	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wait	cc
7	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 do	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	roles by
1	do	to-infinitive	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	infinitive	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wait	infinitive	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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