Test 11 · Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas
Your mum's old Lego is from 1985. Will it fit your new set?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, it · What happens: be, fit · To what, where: 1985, new set
This is test 11 of lesson 32 «Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas» 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: Your mum's old Lego is from 1985.
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 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 1985 | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 mum | case |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Lego | amod |
| 5 | Lego | Lego | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 mum | conj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 1985 | cop |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 1985 | case |
| 8 | 1985 | 1985 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 1985 | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Your mum and old Lego | 1985 | 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: Will it fit your new set?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fit | aux |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fit | nsubj |
| 3 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 set | nmod:poss |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 set | amod |
| 6 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fit | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | future | it | your new set | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent set=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Yes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Only with glue
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 glue | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 glue | case |
| 3 | glue | glue | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
No, the old bricks are a slightly different size from new ones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 size | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bricks | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bricks | amod |
| 5 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 size | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 size | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 size | det |
| 8 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 9 different | advmod |
| 9 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 size | amod |
| 10 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 ones | case |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ones | amod |
| 13 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 size | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the old bricks | a different size | from new ones | tree rules |
Option 4
Only if you sand the old bricks down to fit the new ones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 sand | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 sand | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 sand | nsubj |
| 4 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fit | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bricks | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bricks | amod |
| 7 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fit | nsubj |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 fit | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 fit | mark |
| 10 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ones | det |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ones | amod |
| 13 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fit | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sand a condition, not said to happen | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | fit | to-infinitive | sand | the new ones | down property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
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