Test 10 · ★★★ · Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★
Mum, on nights all week, says «I'm grand, love» but nods off mid-sentence twice. What's really going on?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum · What happens: say, be, nod off, go on · To what, where: mid-sentence · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 61 «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» 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: Mum, on nights all week, says «I'm grand, love» but nods off mid-sentence twice.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nights | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 nights | case |
| 4 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Mum | appos |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 week | det |
| 6 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nights | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mum | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 grand | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 grand | nsubj |
| 11 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 grand | cop |
| 12 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 says | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 love | punct |
| 14 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grand | vocative |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 grand | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 nods | cc |
| 17 | nods | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 says | conj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 nods | compound:prt |
| 19 | mid-sentence | mid-sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nods | obj |
| 20 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 nods | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Mum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Mum | love vocative; grand property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | nod off | present | Mum not said here | mid-sentence | twice 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 really going on?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 going | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 going | advmod |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 going | compound:prt |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | present · progressive | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
She is completely fine and wide awake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fine | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fine | cop |
| 3 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 4 fine | advmod |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wide | cc |
| 6 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fine | conj |
| 7 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fine | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | She | completely, fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | She not said here | tree rules |
Option 2
She is pretending so you'll go out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pretending | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pretending | aux |
| 3 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 go | nsubj |
| 6 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pretending | xcomp |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | present · progressive | She | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go out | future | you | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
She is bored of talking to you
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bored | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bored | cop |
| 3 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 talking | mark |
| 5 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 bored | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 talking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | She | bored property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | talk | gerund | She not said here | you | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
She is very tired from her shifts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tired | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tired | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 tired | advmod |
| 4 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 shifts | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 shifts | nmod:poss |
| 7 | shifts | shift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tired | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | She | her shifts | tired property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | shift | her = she | nom shift «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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