Test 5 · ★ · Practising when you would rather not
Ciara says she's "wojus" (terrible) after a week. What is most likely?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ciara · What happens: say, be · To what, where: wojus · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 3 «Practising when you would rather not» of the arts 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: Ciara says she's "wojus" (terrible) after a week.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ciara | Ciara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wojus | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wojus | cop |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 wojus | punct |
| 6 | wojus | wojus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | ccomp |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 wojus | punct |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 terrible | punct |
| 9 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wojus | conj |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 terrible | punct |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 week | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 week | det |
| 13 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 terrible | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Ciara | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Ciara | wojus | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Ciara not said here | week | 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 is most likely?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 likely | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 likely | cop |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 likely | advmod |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 likely | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | likely property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
She will be bad at it forever, whatever she does
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 bad | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bad | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bad | cop |
| 4 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bad | obl |
| 7 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 4 bad | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 whatever | punct |
| 9 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 bad | conj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 does | nsubj |
| 11 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 whatever | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | She | it | bad, forever property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | present | she | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nearly everyone is bad in the first weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 4 bad | advmod |
| 2 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 bad | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bad | cop |
| 4 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 weeks | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 weeks | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 weeks | amod |
| 8 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bad | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | everyone | week | bad, nearly property | tree rules |
Option 3
The tin whistle she was given must be broken
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 whistle | det |
| 2 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whistle | compound |
| 3 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 given | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | aux:pass |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 whistle | acl:relcl |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 broken | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 broken | aux:pass |
| 9 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | she | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | break | must · passive | the tin whistle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 4
One week is the time it takes to master music
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 week | nummod |
| 2 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 takes | nsubj |
| 7 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 master | mark |
| 9 | master | master | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 takes | xcomp |
| 10 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 master | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the time | week | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | present | it | the time not said here | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent time=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | master | to-infinitive | music | tree rules |
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