Test 5 · ★★ · Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation
Kids: «Mrs Lee won a hundred quid on the bingo and bought everyone ice cream!» It was twenty pounds and ice lollies. What kind of gossip is it?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kids, cream · What happens: win, buy, be · To what, where: hundred quid, bingo, ice cream, twenty pounds, kind
This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 43 «Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation» 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: Kids: «Mrs Lee won a hundred quid on the bingo and bought everyone ice cream!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 won | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kids | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 won | punct |
| 4 | Mrs | Mrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 won | nsubj |
| 5 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mrs | flat |
| 6 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 quid | det |
| 8 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 quid | nummod |
| 9 | quid | quid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 won | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 bingo | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bingo | det |
| 12 | bingo | bingo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 won | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bought | cc |
| 14 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 won | conj |
| 15 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 ice | compound |
| 16 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cream | compound |
| 17 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bought | obj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 won | punct |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 won | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win in a quote | past | Kids | a hundred quid | the bingo | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quid=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | buy in a quote | past | Kids not said here | ice cream | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cream=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: It was twenty pounds and ice lollies.
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 pounds | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pounds | cop |
| 3 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 pounds | nummod |
| 4 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lollies | cc |
| 6 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lollies | compound |
| 7 | lollies | lolly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pounds | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pounds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | cream | twenty pounds and ice lollies | tree rules |
Sentence 3: What kind of gossip is it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 gossip | case |
| 4 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kind | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 kind | cop |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kind | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 kind | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | cream | what kind | of gossip | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Gossip that should be reported
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 reported | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 reported | aux:pass |
| 5 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Gossip | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | should · passive | Gossip | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 2
Dangerous gossip about her money
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gossip | amod |
| 2 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 money | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 money | nmod:poss |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gossip | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nasty gossip that hurts Mrs Lee
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gossip | amod |
| 2 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 hurts | nsubj |
| 4 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gossip | acl:relcl |
| 5 | Mrs | Mrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hurts | obj |
| 6 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mrs | flat |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | present | Nasty gossip | Mrs | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mrs=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Lovely gossip that thanks someone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gossip | amod |
| 2 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 thanks | nsubj |
| 4 | thanks | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gossip | acl:relcl |
| 5 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 thanks | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | present | Lovely gossip | someone | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme |
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