Test 8 · Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings

Why should you knock before going into a sibling's room?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: knock, go · To what, where: room

This is test 8 of lesson 94 «Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 knock	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 knock	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 knock	nsubj
4	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 going	mark
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 knock	advcl
7	into	into	ADP	_	11 room	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sibling	det
9	sibling	sibling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 room	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 sibling	case
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 knock	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	should	you						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	go	gerund	you not said here			a sibling's room			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location

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

It is only polite if a guest is there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 polite	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 polite	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 polite	advmod
4	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 there	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 guest	det
7	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 there	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 there	cop
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 polite	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					polite property	tree rules
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	a guest					there property	tree rules

Option 2

Knocking keeps the door from breaking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knocking	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 breaking	mark
6	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 keeps	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	knock	gerund		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	keep	present	the door	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme
3	break	gerund		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Only so they can hide what they are doing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 hide	advmod
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	5 hide	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hide	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hide	aux
5	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 doing	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 doing	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 doing	aux
9	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 hide	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	can	they						tree rules
2	do	present · progressive	they						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Everyone deserves some private space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 deserves	nsubj
2	deserves	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 space	det
4	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 space	amod
5	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 deserves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deserve	present	Everyone	some private space					tree rules

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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