--- title: Ella yawns all day at school and keeps dropping things. What might s… — Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body… · tree and pragmatics description: Ella yawns all day at school and keeps dropping things. What might she need? Test 4 of lesson 9 «Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/9-body-signals/t4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/9-body-signals/) / t4 # Test 4 · Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals Ella yawns all day at school and keeps dropping things. What might she need? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ella · **What happens:** yawn, keep, drop, need · **To what, where:** school, things This is test 4 of lesson 9 «Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals» of the everyday 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/9-body-signals/#t4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Ella yawns all day at school and keeps dropping things. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:9-body-signals:t4:1 # text = Ella yawns all day at school and keeps dropping things. 1 Ella Ella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 yawns yawn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 dropping drop VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 xcomp _ _ 10 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **yawn** | present | Ella | | | school | day | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **keep** | present | Ella *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **drop** | gerund | Ella *not said here* | things | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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 might she need? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:9-body-signals:t4:2 # text = What might she need? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | might | Ella | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} More sleep at night ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:9-body-signals:t4:o1:1 # text = More sleep at night 1 More more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} More screen time ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:9-body-signals:t4:o2:1 # text = More screen time 1 More more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 amod _ _ 2 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Less water ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:9-body-signals:t4:o3:1 # text = Less water 1 Less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} More sugar ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:9-body-signals:t4:o4:1 # text = More sugar 1 More more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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