Test 5 · ★ · Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa
Ava's brother: "New haircut's on the news, must be massive." What's the more likely truth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, likely truth · What happens: be
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 53 «Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa» 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: Ava's brother: "New haircut's on the news, must be massive."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ava | case |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 massive | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 haircut | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 haircut | punct |
| 6 | New | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 haircut | amod |
| 7 | haircut | haircut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | conj |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 haircut | case |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 news | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 news | det |
| 11 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 haircut | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brother | punct |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 massive | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 massive | cop |
| 15 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 massive | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 massive | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | must | Ava's brother and New haircut on the news | massive 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 more likely truth?
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 | 6 truth | det |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 likely | advmod |
| 5 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 truth | amod |
| 6 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the likely truth | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The singer begged the news to cover it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 singer | det |
| 2 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 news | det |
| 5 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begged | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 cover | mark |
| 7 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 begged | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cover | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | the singer | the news | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent news=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | cover | to-infinitive | the singer not said here | news | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The programme needed to fill a few minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 programme | det |
| 2 | programme | programme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needed | nsubj |
| 3 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 fill | mark |
| 5 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 needed | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 minutes | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 minutes | amod |
| 8 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fill | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | past | the programme | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fill not said to happen | to-infinitive | the programme not said here | minute | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
Haircuts are top news in every country
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Haircuts | haircut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 news | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 news | cop |
| 3 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 news | amod |
| 4 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 country | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 country | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 news | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Haircuts | top news | every country | tree rules |
Option 4
The haircut broke the law somehow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 haircut | det |
| 2 | haircut | haircut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 broke | nsubj |
| 3 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 law | det |
| 5 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 broke | obj |
| 6 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 3 broke | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | the haircut | the law | somehow property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer law=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/53-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa/t5/