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Test 4 · Boredom, excitement and pride

The night before a holiday, Noah cannot sleep from excitement. Which helps most?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Noah · What happens: not sleep, help · To what, where: excitement

This is test 4 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

Sentence 1: The night before a holiday, Noah cannot sleep from excitement.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sleep	obl:unmarked
3	before	before	ADP	_	5 holiday	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 holiday	det
5	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 night	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
7	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sleep	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 sleep	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 sleep	advmod
10	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 excitement	case
12	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sleep	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sleep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sleep	can	Noah			excitement	night		vn snooze-40.4-1 «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.

Sentence 2: Which helps most?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 helps	advmod
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 helps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Looking at holiday pictures on a tablet in bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 pictures	case
3	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pictures	compound
4	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Looking	obl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 tablet	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tablet	det
7	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 bed	case
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund						on a tablet; in bed; at holiday pictures	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at picture=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Reading a calm book and breathing slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 book	det
3	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 book	amod
4	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Reading	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 breathing	cc
6	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Reading	conj
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	6 breathing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	gerund		a calm book					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic
2	breathe	gerund						slowly property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Running laps of the bedroom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 laps	amod
2	laps	lap	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 bedroom	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bedroom	det
5	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laps	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Eating a sweet snack to relax

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 snack	det
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snack	amod
4	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eating	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 relax	mark
6	relax	relax	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Eating	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund		a sweet snack					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snack=Patient
2	relax	to-infinitive							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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