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Test 7 · School rules, honesty and wrong accusations

Your friend says spelling bees are pointless because "phones fix spelling". Why still learn?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend, spelling bees, phones, you · What happens: say, be, fix, learn · To what, where: spelling · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 of lesson 11 «School rules, honesty and wrong accusations» of the AI 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: Your friend says spelling bees are pointless because "phones fix spelling".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bees	compound
5	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pointless	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pointless	cop
7	pointless	pointless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 fix	mark
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 fix	punct
10	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fix	nsubj
11	fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	advcl
12	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fix	obj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 fix	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	spelling bees					pointless property	tree rules
3	fix in a quote	present	phones	spelling					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent spelling=Patient

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 still learn?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 learn	advmod
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 learn	advmod
3	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 learn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	imperative	you not said here				still		vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Some skills need to live in your own head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 skills	det
2	skills	skill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 live	mark
5	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 need	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 head	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 head	amod
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	some skills						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	live not said to happen	to-infinitive	some skills not said here			your own head			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in head=Location

Option 2

Phones never fix spelling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fix	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 fix	advmod
3	fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fix	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fix	present	Phones	spelling					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent spelling=Patient

Option 3

Teachers like long words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 like	nsubj
2	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 words	amod
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	Teachers	long words					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot word=Theme

Option 4

Spelling bees win money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bees	compound
2	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 win	nsubj
3	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 win	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	present	Spelling bees	money					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality

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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