Test 9 · ★ · Police, courts and prison
A judge in a wig gives a punishment. A jury said "guilty". Who decided the punishment?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: judge, jury · What happens: give, say, decide · To what, where: punishment · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 30 «Police, courts and prison» of the adult life 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 judge in a wig gives a punishment.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 judge | det |
| 2 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gives | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 wig | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wig | det |
| 5 | wig | wig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 judge | nmod |
| 6 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 punishment | det |
| 8 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gives | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gives | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | a judge in a wig | a punishment | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punishment=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: A jury said "guilty".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 jury | det |
| 2 | jury | jury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 guilty | punct |
| 5 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | ccomp |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 guilty | punct |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | a jury | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: Who decided the punishment?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 decided | nsubj |
| 2 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 punishment | det |
| 4 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 decided | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 decided | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | the punishment | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent punishment=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The jury
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 jury | det |
| 2 | jury | jury | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The victim
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 victim | det |
| 2 | victim | victim | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The police
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 police | det |
| 2 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The judge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 judge | det |
| 2 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | 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. Elamur Cosmic License.
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