Test 3 · ★ · Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them
Your mate: "Plane crashed, it's all over the telly, I'm NEVER flying to Spain lol." What's the honest answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, I, honest answer · What happens: crash, be, not fly · To what, where: telly, Spain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 51 «Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them» 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: Your mate: "Plane crashed, it's all over the telly, I'm NEVER flying to Spain lol."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crashed | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 crashed | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 crashed | punct |
| 5 | Plane | Plane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 crashed | nsubj |
| 6 | crashed | crash | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 telly | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 telly | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 telly | cop |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 telly | advmod |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 telly | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 telly | det |
| 13 | telly | telly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crashed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flying | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 flying | nsubj |
| 16 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 flying | aux |
| 17 | NEVER | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 flying | advmod |
| 18 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 crashed | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Spain | case |
| 20 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 flying | obl |
| 21 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 18 flying | discourse |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 flying | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 flying | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crash in a quote | past | Your mate | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | mate | the telly | all property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not fly in a quote | present · progressive | I | Spain | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to spain=Result |
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
Only planes to Spain ever crash
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 planes | advmod |
| 2 | planes | plane | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Spain | case |
| 4 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 planes | nmod |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 crash | advmod |
| 6 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 planes | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
He's right; flying is the most dangerous thing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 thing | punct |
| 5 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 thing | amod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 thing | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 thing | det |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 dangerous | advmod |
| 9 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thing | amod |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 right | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | the flying dangerous thing | tree rules |
Option 3
Planes crash every single day but the airlines hide it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Planes | plane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 crash | nsubj |
| 2 | crash | crash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 day | det |
| 4 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crash | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 hide | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 airlines | det |
| 8 | airlines | airline | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hide | nsubj |
| 9 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 crash | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hide | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crash | present | Planes | day | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hide | present | the airlines | it | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Crashes are news because they almost never happen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crashes | crash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 news | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 news | cop |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 happen | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 happen | nsubj |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 7 never | advmod |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 happen | advmod |
| 8 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 news | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Crashes | news | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not happen | infinitive | Crashes = crash | news not said here | tree rules |
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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