Test 6 · Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first
In a cartoon a girl wins a puppy at a fair and that is the whole story. What is missing?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, that · What happens: win, be · To what, where: puppy, cartoon, whole story
This is test 6 of lesson 325 «Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first» 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: In a cartoon a girl wins a puppy at a fair and that is the whole story.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wins | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wins | nsubj |
| 6 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 puppy | det |
| 8 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wins | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 fair | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fair | det |
| 11 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wins | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 story | cc |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 story | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 story | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 story | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 story | amod |
| 17 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fair | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wins | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present | a girl | a puppy | a cartoon | at a fair and the whole story | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent puppy=Theme at fair=Asset | ||
| 2 | is a | present | that | the whole story | 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 missing?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 missing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 missing | cop |
| 3 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 missing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | missing property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
A bigger prize
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 prize | det |
| 2 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 prize | amod |
| 3 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The fair ticket
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ticket | det |
| 2 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ticket | amod |
| 3 | ticket | ticket | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Who feeds, walks and pays for it for many years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 feeds | nsubj |
| 2 | feeds | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 walks | punct |
| 4 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 feeds | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 pays | cc |
| 6 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 feeds | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pays | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 years | case |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 years | amod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pays | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | present | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | walk | present | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | pay | present | year | for it | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |
Option 4
The puppy's name tag and a shiny new collar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 puppy | det |
| 2 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tag | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 puppy | case |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tag | compound |
| 5 | tag | tag | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 collar | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 collar | det |
| 8 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 collar | amod |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 collar | amod |
| 10 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tag | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tag | the puppy | nom tag «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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