Test 7 · ★★ · Food on the floor and kitchen rules
Sophie swallowed a cherry stone and is crying about a tree growing. What do you tell her?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sophie, tree, you · What happens: swallow, cry, grow, tell · To what, where: cherry stone, Sophie · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 22 «Food on the floor and kitchen rules» of the myths 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: Sophie swallowed a cherry stone and is crying about a tree growing.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sophie | Sophie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 swallowed | nsubj |
| 2 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stone | det |
| 4 | cherry | cherry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stone | compound |
| 5 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swallowed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 crying | cc |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 crying | aux |
| 8 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 swallowed | conj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crying | obl |
| 12 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 tree | acl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swallowed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | past | Sophie | a cherry stone | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | present · progressive | Sophie not said here | about a tree | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about tree=Topic | ||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | a tree not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 do you tell her?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 tell | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · do-support | you | Sophie | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient what=Topic |
The options
Option 1
Lie in the sun to stop the tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 sun | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sun | det |
| 4 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lie | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stop | mark |
| 6 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Lie | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stop | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | imperative | you not said here | the sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location | ||||
| 2 | stop | to-infinitive | you not said here | the tree | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality tree=Eventuality |
Option 2
Drink lots of water every day so the tree grows faster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Drink | obj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 water | case |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lots | nmod |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Drink | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 10 grows | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grows | nsubj |
| 10 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Drink | advcl |
| 11 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 grows | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | imperative | you not said here | lots of water | day | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient | |||
| 2 | grow | present | the tree | fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Eat soil to give the tree food
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Eat | obj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 give | mark |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Eat | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 food | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 food | compound |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | imperative | you not said here | soil | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | you not said here | the tree food | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It just passes through; nothing grows inside you
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 passes | nsubj |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 passes | advmod |
| 3 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 3 passes | compound:prt |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 grows | punct |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 grows | nsubj |
| 7 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 passes | conj |
| 8 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 grows | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass through | present | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grow | present | nothing | inside you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside you=Location |
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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