Test 8 · Buildings and architecture
Your friend's marshmallow square keeps going wonky. Which shape should she use?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: marshmallow square, shape · What happens: keep, go, use
This is test 8 of lesson 34 «Buildings and architecture» 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 friend's marshmallow square keeps going wonky.
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 | 5 square | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 friend | case |
| 4 | marshmallow | marshmallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 square | compound |
| 5 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keeps | nsubj |
| 6 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 keeps | xcomp |
| 8 | wonky | wonky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 going | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 keeps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Your friend's marshmallow square | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | gerund | Your friend's marshmallow square not said here | wonky property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: Which shape should she use?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 shape | det |
| 2 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 use | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 use | aux |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 use | nsubj |
| 5 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | should | which shape | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Triangles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Triangles | triangle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Pentagons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pentagons | pentagon | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
More squares, stacked higher so they hold each other up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 squares | amod |
| 2 | squares | square | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stacked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stacked | punct |
| 4 | stacked | stack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | higher | high | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 hold | advmod |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 hold | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hold | nsubj |
| 8 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stacked | advcl |
| 9 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 8 hold | obj |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 each | fixed |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 hold | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stack | participle · passive | More squares | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hold up | present | squares = square | each | high property | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot each=Theme |
Option 4
Circles, which are the strongest shape for any frame
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Circles | circle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shape | punct |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 shape | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 shape | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shape | det |
| 6 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 shape | amod |
| 7 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Circles | appos |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 frame | case |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 frame | det |
| 10 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shape | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Circles | the strongest shape | for any frame | tree rules |
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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