Test 5 · ★★★ · Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★
Overheard on the bus: «Our Jade's moving to Spain — no wait, sorry, to Spalding, near Boston.» Where is Jade moving?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jade · What happens: overhear, move, wait · To what, where: bus, Spain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★★★ 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: Overheard on the bus: «Our Jade's moving to Spain — no wait, sorry, to Spalding, near Boston.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Overheard | overhear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 bus | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bus | det |
| 4 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Overheard | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 wait | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 wait | punct |
| 7 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Jade | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Jade | Jade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 wait | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Jade | case |
| 10 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 wait | csubj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Spain | case |
| 12 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 moving | obl |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 wait | punct |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 wait | det |
| 15 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Overheard | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sorry | punct |
| 17 | sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | 15 wait | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Spalding | punct |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Spalding | case |
| 20 | Spalding | Spalding | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sorry | vocative |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Boston | punct |
| 22 | near | near | ADP | _ | 23 Boston | case |
| 23 | Boston | Boston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Spalding | appos |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 wait | punct |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overhear | participle | the bus | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | move in a quote | gerund | Spain | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to spain=Result | |||||
| 3 | wait in a quote | Our Jade | 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: Where is Jade moving?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 moving | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 moving | aux |
| 3 | Jade | Jade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 moving | nsubj |
| 4 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 moving | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present · progressive | Jade | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Spain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Boston
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boston | Boston | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Near Spain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 2 Spain | case |
| 2 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Spalding
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spalding | spalding | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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