Test 4 · ★★ · The essay the teacher spotted
A cartoon kid gets a gold medal for a bot poem and grins forever. What does the cartoon miss?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon kid · What happens: get, grin, do · To what, where: gold medal
This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 9 «The essay the teacher spotted» 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: A cartoon kid gets a gold medal for a bot poem and grins forever.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 kid | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kid | compound |
| 3 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | nsubj |
| 4 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 medal | det |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 medal | compound |
| 7 | medal | medal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 poem | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 poem | det |
| 10 | bot | bot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 poem | compound |
| 11 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 grins | cc |
| 13 | grins | grin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gets | conj |
| 14 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 13 grins | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | a cartoon kid | a gold medal | for a bot poem | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent medal=Theme for poem=Source | |||
| 2 | grin | present | a cartoon kid not said here | forever property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 does the cartoon miss?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 miss | det |
| 4 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 miss | compound |
| 5 | miss | miss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A prize you didn't earn feels empty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 prize | det |
| 2 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feels | nsubj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 earn | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 earn | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 earn | advmod |
| 6 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 prize | acl:relcl |
| 7 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feels | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not earn | past · do-support | you | a prize not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | a prize | empty property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
Teachers never notice where poems come from
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 notice | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 notice | advmod |
| 3 | notice | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 come | advmod |
| 5 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 come | nsubj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 notice | advcl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 come | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not notice | present | Teachers | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | come | present | poems | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Medals are only for bots, not for people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Medals | medal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bots | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bots | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 bots | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 bots | case |
| 5 | bots | bot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 people | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 people | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bots | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Medals | for bots and people | tree rules |
Option 4
Bot poems always win medals in the end
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bot | bot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 poems | compound |
| 2 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 win | nsubj |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 win | advmod |
| 4 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | medals | medal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 win | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 win | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present | Bot poems | medals | in the end | always property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medal=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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