Test 1 · ★★ · Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read t…
«shark swimming down the high street after the flood!!! 1M shares» What is the smart thing to do?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: 1M shares · What happens: swim, be, do · To what, where: high street, smart thing
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 296 «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them» of the biology 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: «shark swimming down the high street after the flood!!!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 swimming | punct |
| 2 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swimming | compound |
| 3 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 street | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 street | det |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 street | amod |
| 7 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swimming | obl |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 flood | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 flood | det |
| 10 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swimming | obl |
| 11 | !!! | !!! | PUNCT | _ | 3 swimming | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim in a quote | gerund | the high street | after the flood | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down street=Trajectory |
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: 1M shares» What is the smart thing to do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1M | 1m | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shares | compound |
| 2 | shares | share | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 thing | nsubj |
| 3 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 shares | punct |
| 4 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 thing | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 thing | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 7 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thing | amod |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thing | acl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 thing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | 1M shares | the smart thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Share it quickly before it is deleted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Share | share | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Share | obj |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 1 Share | advmod |
| 4 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 deleted | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 deleted | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 deleted | aux:pass |
| 7 | deleted | delete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Share | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | imperative | you not said here | it | quickly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | delete | present · passive | it | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Check where the picture first came from before believing it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 came | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 picture | det |
| 4 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 came | advmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Check | advcl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 came | obl |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 believing | mark |
| 9 | believing | believe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 came | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 believing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | imperative | you not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the picture | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | believe | gerund | the picture not said here | picture | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 3
Believe it, because a million people can't all be wrong about it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Believe | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wrong | punct |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 wrong | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 million | det |
| 6 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 people | nummod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wrong | nsubj |
| 8 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 wrong | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 wrong | advmod |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 wrong | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wrong | cop |
| 12 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Believe | parataxis |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wrong | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | imperative | you not said here | it | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not is | can | million people | about it; all, wrong property | tree rules |
Option 4
Go down to the street to see the shark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 street | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 street | det |
| 5 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Go | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shark | det |
| 9 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | imperative | you not said here | to the street; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | you not said here | the shark | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shark=Stimulus |
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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