--- title: A teacher asks "Which word tells you how often in 'We often swim'?" — Adjectives and adverbs: describing thi… · tree and pragmatics description: A teacher asks "Which word tells you how often in 'We often swim'?" Test 4 of lesson 4 «Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions» of the language 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/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/) / [Adjectives and adverbs: describing thi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/) / t4 # Test 4 · Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions A teacher asks "Which word tells you how often in 'We often swim'?" **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** teacher, word, We · **What happens:** ask, tell, swim · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 4 of lesson 4 «Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions» of the language 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/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:4-adjectives-and-adverbs:t4:1 # text = A teacher asks "Which word tells you how often in 'We often swim'?" 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 6 det _ _ 6 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 iobj _ _ 9 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 10 often often ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 often often ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 swim swim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a teacher | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | which word | | you | | | often *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 3 | **swim** *in a quote* | present | We | | | | | often *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} we ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:4-adjectives-and-adverbs:t4:o1:1 # text = we 1 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} none, often is a noun ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:4-adjectives-and-adverbs:t4:o2:1 # text = none, often is a noun 1 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 noun noun NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | a noun | | | | often *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} swim ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:4-adjectives-and-adverbs:t4:o3:1 # text = swim 1 swim swim NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} often ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:4-adjectives-and-adverbs:t4:o4:1 # text = often 1 often often ADV RB _ 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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