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Test 2 · ★★ · Moving, new schools, change and grief

A new boy from Ireland joins a class in Ohio and looks lost. Which pupil does the right thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new boy, pupil · What happens: join, look, lose, do · To what, where: class, Ohio, right thing

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 97 «Moving, new schools, change and grief» 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: A new boy from Ireland joins a class in Ohio and looks lost.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 joins	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 Ireland	case
5	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 boy	nmod
6	joins	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 class	det
8	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 joins	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Ohio	case
10	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 class	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 looks	cc
12	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 joins	conj
13	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 looks	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 joins	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	present	a new boy from Ireland	a class		Ohio			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent class=Patient
2	look	present	a new boy from Ireland not said here						tree rules
3	lose	participle	a new boy from Ireland not said here						vn succeed-74-3-1 «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 pupil does the right thing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 pupil	det
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	which pupil	the right thing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

One who waits for the teacher to deal with the new boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 waits	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 waits	nsubj
3	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 teacher	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 teacher	det
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waits	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 deal	mark
8	deal	deal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 waits	advcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 boy	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 boy	amod
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present	One					for the teacher	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	deal	to-infinitive	One not said here					with the new boy	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with boy=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

One who says hello and shows him where things are

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 says	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hello	hello	INTJ	_	3 says	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shows	cc
6	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shows	iobj
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 shows	ccomp
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 where	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 where	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	One						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic
2	show	present	One not said here		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is	present	things					where property	tree rules

Option 3

One who asks about his accent in front of everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 asks	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 accent	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 accent	nmod:poss
6	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asks	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 front	case
8	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asks	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 everyone	case
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	One			front of everyone		about his accent	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about accent=Topic
2	accent		his = he						nom accent «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

One who decides he probably just wants to be alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 decides	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 decides	nsubj
3	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wants	nsubj
5	probably	probably	ADV	_	7 wants	advmod
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 wants	advmod
7	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 decides	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	10 alone	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 alone	cop
10	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wants	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	present	One						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	present	he					probably property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
3	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here					alone property	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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