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Test 4 · Pencils, paper and school things

A felt-tip left without its cap all weekend won't write. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: felt tip · What happens: leave, not write · To what, where: felt tip

This is test 4 of lesson 6 «Pencils, paper and school things» of the technology 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: A felt-tip left without its cap all weekend won't write.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tip	det
2	felt	felt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tip	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct
4	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 write	nsubj
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tip	acl
6	without	without	ADP	_	8 cap	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cap	nmod:poss
8	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 weekend	det
10	weekend	weekend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obl:unmarked
11	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 write	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 write	advmod
13	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 write	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle		a felt tip not said here			weekend	without tip's cap	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not write	future	a felt tip						vn scribble-25.2-1 «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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The liquid in the ink evaporated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 liquid	det
2	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 evaporated	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 ink	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ink	det
5	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 liquid	nmod
6	evaporated	evaporate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	evaporate	participle · passive		the liquid in the ink					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 2

Light stole all the colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 colour	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 colour	det
5	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	Light	all colour					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location colour=Theme

Option 3

Pens wear out from resting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pens	pen	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wear	nsubj
2	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 wear	compound:prt
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 resting	mark
5	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 wear	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear out	present	Pens						vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
2	rest	gerund	Pens not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The felt grew mould over the weekend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 felt	det
2	felt	felt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	mould	mould	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	obj
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 weekend	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 weekend	det
7	weekend	weekend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the felt	mould			weekend		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mould=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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