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Test 11 · ★★ · "If... then..." and its traps

In a cartoon a detective sees wet footprints in the hall and shouts, "It rained indoors!" Put the cartoon right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: detective, It, you · What happens: see, shout, rain, put · To what, where: wet footprints, cartoon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 184 «"If... then..." and its traps» of the world 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: In a cartoon a detective sees wet footprints in the hall and shouts, "It rained indoors!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sees	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 detective	det
5	detective	detective	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sees	nsubj
6	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 footprints	amod
8	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sees	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 hall	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hall	det
11	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sees	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shouts	cc
13	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sees	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 rained	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 rained	punct
16	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rained	nsubj
17	rained	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sees	parataxis
18	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	17 rained	advmod
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 rained	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 rained	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	a detective	wet footprints		a cartoon		in the hall	tree rules
2	shout speech: express	present	a detective not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rain in a quote	past	It					indoors property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.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: Put the cartoon right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obj
4	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	the cartoon				right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cartoon=Goal

The options

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

Wet footprints could come from a bath, a puddle or a spill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 footprints	amod
2	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 bath	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bath	det
7	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 puddle	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 puddle	det
10	puddle	puddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bath	conj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 spill	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 spill	det
13	spill	spill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bath	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	could	Wet footprints			a bath and a puddle or a spill			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bath=Initial_Location

Option 2

It often rains inside houses

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 rains	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 rains	advmod
3	rains	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	inside	inside	ADV	_	3 rains	advmod
5	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rains	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rain	present	It	houses				inside, often property	tree rules

Option 3

Footprints can never tell you anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	can	Footprints	anything	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient anything=Topic

Option 4

Wet footprints only come from indoor rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 footprints	amod
2	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 rain	case
6	indoor	indoor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rain	amod
7	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Wet footprints			indoor rain			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from rain=Initial_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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