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Test 3 · ★★ · Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs o…

Dad on the phone: "Mate, first reports said six hurt, now they're saying two." Why did the number change?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: first reports, six, reports · What happens: say, hurt, do · To what, where: Mate, two · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ 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 on the phone: "Mate, first reports said six hurt, now they're saying two."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 phone	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 phone	det
4	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dad	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Mate	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Mate	punct
7	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dad	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 reports	amod
10	reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Mate	acl
12	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 hurt	nsubj
13	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saying	punct
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 saying	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saying	nsubj
17	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 saying	aux
18	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 hurt	advcl
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 saying	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	first reports	Mate not said here					tree rules
2	hurt in a quote	past	six						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present · progressive	reports = report	two			now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent two=Topic

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: Why did the number change?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 change	det
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 change	compound
5	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

The news made a big mistake on purpose to scare people at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 news	det
2	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mistake	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mistake	amod
6	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 purpose	case
8	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 scare	mark
10	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	advcl
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 scare	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 home	case
13	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scare	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the news	a big mistake		purpose			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product
2	scare	to-infinitive	the news not said here	people		home			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Early numbers are guesses and get corrected as more is known

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 numbers	amod
2	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 guesses	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 guesses	cop
4	guesses	guess	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 corrected	cc
6	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 corrected	aux:pass
7	corrected	correct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 guesses	conj
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 more	case
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 corrected	obl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 known	aux:pass
11	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 guesses	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Early numbers	guesses					tree rules
2	correct speech: disagree	infinitive · passive	Early numbers not said here					as more	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»
3	know	present · passive		guesses not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»

Option 3

Four people got better in an hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 people	nummod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 got	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hour	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hour	det
7	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Four people				hour	good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Each channel invents its own number

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 channel	det
2	channel	channel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 invents	nsubj
3	invents	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 number	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 number	amod
6	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 invents	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	present	each channel	channel's own number					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Result

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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