Test 2 · ★ · Bad news, protests and helping others
A video says «Schools closing forever from Monday!!» but no news site reports it. What should you think?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: video, Schools, news site, you · What happens: say, close, report, think · To what, where: Schools, video · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 32 «Bad news, protests and helping others» 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 video says «Schools closing forever from Monday!!» but no news site reports it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 video | det |
| 2 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 Schools | punct |
| 5 | Schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 says | obj |
| 6 | closing | close | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 Schools | acl |
| 7 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 6 closing | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Monday | case |
| 9 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 closing | obl |
| 10 | !! | !! | PUNCT | _ | 6 closing | punct |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 Schools | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 reports | cc |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 site | det |
| 14 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 site | compound |
| 15 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reports | nsubj |
| 16 | reports | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 reports | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a video | Schools | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent school=Topic | ||||
| 2 | close in a quote | gerund | Schools not said here | monday | forever property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | report | present | no news site | video | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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 should you think?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 think | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | should | you | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Share it fast so everyone knows
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Share | share | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Share | obj |
| 3 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Share | advmod |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 knows | advmod |
| 5 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 knows | nsubj |
| 6 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Share | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | imperative | you not said here | it | fast property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | present | everyone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
It's true, but only for your school
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 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 school | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 school | cc |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 school | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 school | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 school | nmod:poss |
| 9 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 true | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | true property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
It's probably fake, so check before believing it
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 | 4 fake | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fake | cop |
| 3 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 4 fake | advmod |
| 4 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 check | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 check | advmod |
| 7 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 fake | parataxis |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 believing | mark |
| 9 | believing | believe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 check | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 believing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | fake, probably property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | check | infinitive | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | believe | gerund | it | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
It must be true because it's a video and videos cannot lie
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 | 4 true | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 true | cop |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 video | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 video | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 video | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 video | det |
| 9 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 true | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 videos | cc |
| 11 | videos | video | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 video | conj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 lie | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 lie | advmod |
| 14 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | It | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | a video and videos | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not lie | can | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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