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Test 3 · Kindness to the dying and visiting the old

The vicar announces, very formally: «Volunteers are sought to accompany our housebound members on Thursday afternoons.» What is he asking for?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: vicar · What happens: announce, seek, accompany, ask · To what, where: Volunteers, housebound members · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 of lesson 77 «Kindness to the dying and visiting the old» of the religion ethics 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 vicar announces, very formally: «Volunteers are sought to accompany our housebound members on Thursday afternoons.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 vicar	det
2	vicar	vicar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 announces	nsubj
3	announces	announce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 formally	punct
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 formally	advmod
6	formally	formally	ADV	_	3 announces	advmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 sought	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 sought	punct
9	Volunteers	volunteer	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sought	nsubj:pass
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sought	aux:pass
11	sought	seek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 announces	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 accompany	mark
13	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sought	xcomp
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 members	nmod:poss
15	housebound	housebound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 members	amod
16	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 accompany	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 afternoons	case
18	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 afternoons	compound
19	afternoons	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 accompany	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sought	punct
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 sought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	announce speech: other	present	the vicar					formally property	vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	seek in a quote	present · passive		Volunteers					tree rules
3	accompany not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive		our housebound members			afternoon		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent member=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 is he asking for?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 asking	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asking	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asking	nsubj
4	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	4 asking	case
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 asking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present · progressive	vicar						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1

People to stay home on Thursdays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stay	nsubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 stay	mark
3	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 stay	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 Thursdays	case
6	Thursdays	Thursday	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	to-infinitive	People				thursday	home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

People to visit old church members who can't go out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 visit	mark
3	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 People	acl
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 members	amod
5	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 members	compound
6	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 visit	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 go	nsubj
8	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 go	advmod
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 members	acl:relcl
11	out	out	ADV	_	10 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	to-infinitive		old church members					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent member=Co-Agent
2	not go out	can	old church members					out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

People to drive the vicar to the shops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drive	nsubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 drive	mark
3	drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 vicar	det
5	vicar	vicar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drive	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 shops	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shops	det
8	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drive	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	to-infinitive	People	the vicar		the shops			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent vicar=Theme to shop=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

People to clean the church on Thursdays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 clean	nsubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 clean	mark
3	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 church	det
5	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clean	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 Thursdays	case
7	Thursdays	Thursday	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 clean	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	to-infinitive	People	the church			thursday		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent church=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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