Test 5 · ★★ · The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronatio…
Big sister: «The royals are all fighting in Instagram comments lol!» What's really there?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: royals · What happens: fight, be · To what, where: Instagram comments
This is test 5 · ★★ 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: Big sister: «The royals are all fighting in Instagram comments lol!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sister | amod |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 sister | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 fighting | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 royals | det |
| 6 | royals | royal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fighting | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fighting | aux |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 fighting | advmod |
| 9 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 sister | parataxis |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 comments | case |
| 11 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 comments | compound | ||
| 12 | comments | comment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fighting | obl |
| 13 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 9 fighting | discourse |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 sister | punct |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 sister | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight in a quote | present · progressive | the royals | Instagram comments | all property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 really there?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 there | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | cop |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 there | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | there property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
William blocked Harry on all the apps
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 blocked | nsubj |
| 2 | blocked | block | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 blocked | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 apps | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 apps | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 apps | det |
| 7 | apps | app | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 blocked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | block | past | William | Harry | all apps | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent harry=Patient on app=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Official accounts post photos and news, no comment fights
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 accounts | amod |
| 2 | accounts | account | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 post | nsubj |
| 3 | post | post | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | photos | photo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 post | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 news | cc |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 photos | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fights | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 fights | det |
| 9 | comment | comment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fights | compound |
| 10 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 photos | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | post | present | Official accounts | photos and news and no comment fights | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Theme |
Option 3
Kate and Meghan argue under every photo
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 argue | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Meghan | cc |
| 3 | Meghan | Meghan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kate | conj |
| 4 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 photo | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 photo | det |
| 7 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 argue | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue speech: disagree | present | Kate and Meghan | every photo | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
The King replies to Harry's posts every day with long messages
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replies | nsubj |
| 3 | replies | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 posts | case |
| 5 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 posts | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Harry | case |
| 7 | posts | post | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 replies | obl |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replies | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 messages | case |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 messages | amod |
| 12 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 replies | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | present | the King | day | to Harry's posts; with long messages | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent to post=Theme with message=Eventuality |
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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