Test 15 · Boredom, excitement and pride

party at the pool, running round the edge is the best bit

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: party · What happens: run, be · To what, where: edge, best bit

This is test 15 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	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bit	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 pool	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pool	det
4	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 party	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 running	punct
6	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 party	conj
7	round	round	ADP	_	9 edge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 edge	det
9	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 running	obl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 bit	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bit	det
12	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 bit	amod
13	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund	party at the pool not said here			the edge			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round edge=Trajectory
2	is a	present	party at the pool	the best bit					tree rules

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

Running is fine if you're excited, everyone does it at parties

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 fine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 excited	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 excited	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 excited	cop
7	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fine	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 does	punct
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 does	nsubj
10	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 does	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 parties	case
13	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 does	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present				fine property	tree rules
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you			excited property	tree rules
4	do	present	everyone	it	parties		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Walk, wet tiles are slippery and you can fall hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 slippery	punct
3	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tiles	amod
4	tiles	tile	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 slippery	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 slippery	cop
6	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Walk	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fall	cc
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 fall	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fall	aux
10	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 slippery	conj
11	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 fall	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	walk	imperative	you not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	wet tiles	slippery property	tree rules
3	fall	can	you	hard property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Run barefoot, it grips better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	barefoot	barefoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Run	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grips	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grips	nsubj
5	grips	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Run	advcl
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 grips	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here	barefoot					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme barefoot=Trajectory
2	grip	present	barefoot					good property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Run faster so you don't slip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Run	advmod
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 slip	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 slip	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 slip	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 slip	advmod
7	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Run	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not slip	present · do-support	you						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/t15/