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Test 6 · Sleepovers and spooky stories

The glass slides across the spirit board and spells a name. Is a spirit moving it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: glass · What happens: slide, spell, be, move · To what, where: spirit board, name, spirit

This is test 6 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: The glass slides across the spirit board and spells a name.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 glass	det
2	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slides	nsubj
3	slides	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	across	across	ADP	_	7 board	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 board	det
6	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 board	compound
7	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slides	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 spells	cc
9	spells	spell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 slides	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 name	det
11	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spells	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slides	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide	present	the glass			the spirit board			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across board=Trajectory
2	spell	present	the glass not said here	a name					vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent name=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: Is a spirit moving it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 spirit	cop
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spirit	det
3	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moving	csubj
4	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 moving	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 moving	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a spirit					tree rules
2	move	gerund		spirit					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, that's how spirits talk to us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 talk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 talk	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 talk	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 talk	cop
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 talk	advmod
6	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 talk	nsubj
7	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 us	case
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that		us			talk property	tree rules

Option 2

Only if everyone is very quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 quiet	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 quiet	mark
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 quiet	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 quiet	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 quiet	advmod
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	everyone					quiet property	tree rules

Option 3

Only if the lights are off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 lights	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 lights	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lights	det
4	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 off	cop
6	off	off	ADV	_	4 lights	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						off property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, tiny unnoticed movements of people's fingers move it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	10 move	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 movements	punct
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 movements	amod
4	unnoticed	unnoticed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 movements	amod
5	movements	movement	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 move	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 fingers	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fingers	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 people	case
9	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 movements	nmod
10	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 move	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	tiny unnoticed movements of people's fingers	it					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	move			people's fingers					nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient

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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