Test 2 · ★★ · The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronatio…
Auntie Jen: «Meghan made Kate cry before the wedding — or was it the other way round?» What's the honest answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Auntie, cry, honest answer · What happens: make, be · To what, where: Kate cry, other way
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 45 «The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced» 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: Auntie Jen: «Meghan made Kate cry before the wedding — or was it the other way round?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Auntie | Auntie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj |
| 2 | Jen | Jen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Auntie | flat |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
| 5 | Meghan | Meghan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cry | compound |
| 8 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 wedding | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wedding | det |
| 11 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 way | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 way | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 way | cop |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 way | nsubj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 way | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 way | amod |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | parataxis |
| 19 | round | round | ADV | _ | 18 way | advmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 way | punct |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 way | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | past | Auntie | Kate cry | before the wedding | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Product | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | cry | the other way | round property | tree rules |
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's the honest answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 answer | det |
| 4 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 answer | amod |
| 5 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the honest answer | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
They both cried because of the dress
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | both | both | ADV | _ | 3 cried | advmod |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 7 dress | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 because | fixed |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dress | det |
| 7 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | They | because the dress; both property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Two claims, no proof, so we don't know
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 claims | nummod |
| 2 | claims | claim | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 proof | punct |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 proof | det |
| 5 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 claims | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 know | advmod |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 know | advmod |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 claims | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
It was definitely Meghan who cried
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 Meghan | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Meghan | cop |
| 3 | definitely | definitely | ADV | _ | 4 Meghan | advmod |
| 4 | Meghan | Meghan | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Meghan | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | Meghan | definitely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Meghan | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
It was definitely Kate who cried
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 Kate | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Kate | cop |
| 3 | definitely | definitely | ADV | _ | 4 Kate | advmod |
| 4 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Kate | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | Kate | definitely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Kate | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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