Test 7 · ★★ · Screens, eyes and sleep
Little sis dreamt Mum disappeared and she's sobbing. What to tell her?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Little sis, Mum · What happens: dreamt, disappear, sob, tell · To what, where: Mum · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 35 «Screens, eyes and sleep» of the medicine 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: Little sis dreamt Mum disappeared and she's sobbing.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sis | amod |
| 2 | sis | si | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dreamt | nsubj |
| 3 | dreamt | dreamt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 disappeared | nsubj |
| 5 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dreamt | ccomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sobbing | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sobbing | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sobbing | aux |
| 9 | sobbing | sob | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 disappeared | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dreamt | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dreamt | past | Little sis | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | disappear | past | Mum | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sob | present · progressive | Mum | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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: What to tell her?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 tell | obj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 tell | mark |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Mum | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It might come true, so watch Mum carefully
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 | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 come | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 watch | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 watch | advmod |
| 7 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | conj |
| 8 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 watch | obj |
| 9 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 7 watch | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | might | It | true property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | watch | infinitive | Mum | carefully property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Theme |
Option 2
Don't tell anyone about it, ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 tell | advmod |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 tell | obj |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 anyone | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ever | punct |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 tell | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert | imperative · do-support | you not said here | anyone | ever | about it | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient about it=Topic |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
It was a nightmare, dreams don't predict the future
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 nightmare | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 nightmare | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 nightmare | det |
| 4 | nightmare | nightmare | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 predict | punct |
| 6 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 predict | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 predict | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 predict | advmod |
| 9 | predict | predict | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nightmare | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 future | det |
| 11 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 predict | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | a nightmare | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not predict | present · do-support | dreams | the future | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot future=Topic |
Option 4
Dreams are messages from the future
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 messages | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 messages | cop |
| 3 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 future | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 future | det |
| 6 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 messages | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Dreams | messages | the future | 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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