Test 10 · ★★ · Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs o…
Dad, reading the paper: "'TERROR FEARS GRIP CITY' — oh, for goodness' sake, it's a police drill." What has Dad found?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: TERROR FEARS, CITY, Dad · What happens: read, grip, be, find · To what, where: paper, CITY, police drill · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 52 «Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion» 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: Dad, reading the paper: "'TERROR FEARS GRIP CITY' — oh, for goodness' sake, it's a police drill."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reading | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dad | punct |
| 3 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 paper | det |
| 5 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reading | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 GRIP | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 GRIP | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 FEARS | punct |
| 9 | TERROR | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 FEARS | compound |
| 10 | FEARS | fear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 GRIP | nsubj |
| 11 | GRIP | grip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reading | parataxis |
| 12 | CITY | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 GRIP | obj |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 GRIP | punct |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 oh | punct |
| 15 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 reading | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sake | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 sake | case |
| 18 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sake | compound |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 goodness | punct |
| 20 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reading | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 drill | punct |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 drill | nsubj |
| 23 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 drill | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 drill | det |
| 25 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 drill | compound |
| 26 | drill | drill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reading | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 drill | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 drill | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | gerund | the paper | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grip in a quote | present | TERROR FEARS | CITY | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | CITY | a police drill | 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 has Dad found?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 found | obj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | aux |
| 3 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · perfect | Dad | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The city is really in the grip of terror tonight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grip | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 grip | cop |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 grip | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 grip | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 grip | det |
| 7 | grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 terror | case |
| 9 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grip | nmod |
| 10 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grip | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the city | the grip | tonight | of terror | tree rules |
Option 2
The police have made a terrible mistake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 police | det |
| 2 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mistake | det |
| 6 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mistake | amod |
| 7 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · perfect · passive | the police | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary mistake=Product |
Option 3
The paper printed the wrong city's name
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 paper | det |
| 2 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 printed | nsubj |
| 3 | printed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root | |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 5 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 city | amod |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 name | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 city | case |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 printed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | past | the paper | the wrong city's name | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | |||||
| 2 | name | the wrong city | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The headline sounds far worse than the story
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 headline | det |
| 2 | headline | headline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sounds | nsubj |
| 3 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 worse | advmod |
| 5 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 sounds | xcomp |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 story | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 worse | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | the headline | bad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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