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Test 5 · Sleepovers and spooky stories

At camp, a leader tells kids a monster lives in the lake. What would happen if kids swam there alone at night?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: leader, monster, kids · What happens: tell, live, happen, swim · To what, where: kids, camp, lake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 of lesson 26 «Sleepovers and spooky stories» 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: At camp, a leader tells kids a monster lives in the lake.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 camp	case
2	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tells	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 camp	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 leader	det
5	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tells	nsubj
6	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tells	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 monster	det
9	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lives	nsubj
10	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tells	ccomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 lake	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lake	det
13	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lives	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	a leader		kids	camp			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent kid=Recipient clause=Topic
2	live	present	a monster			the lake			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=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.

Sentence 2: What would happen if kids swam there alone at night?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 swam	mark
5	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swam	nsubj
6	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 swam	advmod
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 swam	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swam	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	swim a condition, not said to happen	past	kids			there	night	alone property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

They would be pulled under the water by the lake monster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pulled	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pulled	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 pulled	aux:pass
4	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulled	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 monster	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 monster	det
10	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 monster	compound
11	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	would · passive	the lake monster	They		the water			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They could be in real danger from cold, deep water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 danger	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 danger	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 danger	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 danger	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 danger	amod
6	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 water	case
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 water	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cold	punct
10	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 water	amod
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 danger	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	could	They			real danger		from cold deep water	tree rules

Option 3

Nothing, lakes are always safe at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 lakes	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 safe	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 safe	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 safe	advmod
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 safe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing lakes				night	always, safe property	tree rules

Option 4

The monster would chase them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monster	det
2	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chase	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 chase	aux
4	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chase	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 chase	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase out	would	the monster	them = they					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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