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Test 1 · ★ · Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs

«my uncle says men have one less rib cos of an old story, true?» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: uncle, men · What happens: say, have, be · To what, where: one less rib cos · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 357 «Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs» 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: «my uncle says men have one less rib cos of an old story, true?»

punctnmod:possnsubjnsubjccompnummodamodcompoundobjcasedetamodnmodpunctamodpunctpunctroot«PUNCTmyPRONuncleNOUNsaysVERBmenNOUNhaveVERBoneNUMlessADJribNOUNcosNOUNofADPanDEToldADJstoryNOUN,PUNCTtrueADJ?PUNCT»PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1««PUNCT_4 sayspunct
2mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 unclenmod:poss
3uncleuncleNOUNNumber=Sing4 saysnsubj
4sayssayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
5menmanNOUNNumber=Plur6 havensubj
6havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 saysccomp
7oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card10 cosnummod
8lesslessADJDegree=Cmp10 cosamod
9ribribNOUNNumber=Sing10 coscompound
10coscosNOUNNumber=Sing6 haveobj
11ofofADP_14 storycase
12anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 storydet
13oldoldADJDegree=Pos14 storyamod
14storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing10 cosnmod
15,,PUNCT_16 truepunct
16truetrueADJDegree=Pos14 storyamod
17??PUNCT_4 sayspunct
18»»PUNCT_4 sayspunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: ask in a quotepresentmy unclevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2have in a quotepresentmenone less rib cos of a old storyvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cos=Patient

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 right?

nsubjcoppunctrootWhatPRONisAUXrightADJ?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhatwhatPRONPronType=Int3 rightnsubj
2isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 rightcop
3rightrightADJDegree=Posrootroot
4??PUNCT_3 rightpunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentright propertytree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, men have 23 ribs

discoursepunctnsubjnummodobjrootYesINTJ,PUNCTmenNOUNhaveVERB23NUMribsNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1YesyesINTJPolarity=Pos4 havediscourse
2,,PUNCT_1 Yespunct
3menmanNOUNNumber=Plur4 havensubj
4havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
52323NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card6 ribsnummod
6ribsribNOUNNumber=Plur4 haveobj
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepresentmen23 ribsvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rib=Patient

Option 2

No, women have one less

discoursepunctnsubjobjconjrootNoINTJ,PUNCTwomenNOUNhaveVERBoneNUMlessADJ
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NonoINTJPolarity=Neg4 havediscourse
2,,PUNCT_1 Nopunct
3womenwomanNOUNNumber=Plur4 havensubj
4havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
5oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card4 haveobj
6lesslessADJDegree=Cmp5 oneconj
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepresentwomenonevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, men and women both have 24 ribs

discoursepunctnsubjccconjadvmodnummodobjrootNoINTJ,PUNCTmenNOUNandCCONJwomenNOUNbothADVhaveVERB24NUMribsNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NonoINTJPolarity=Neg3 mendiscourse
2,,PUNCT_1 Nopunct
3menmanNOUNNumber=Plur7 havensubj
4andandCCONJ_5 womencc
5womenwomanNOUNNumber=Plur3 menconj
6bothbothADV_7 haveadvmod
7havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
82424NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card9 ribsnummod
9ribsribNOUNNumber=Plur7 haveobj
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepresentmen and women24 ribsboth propertyvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rib=Patient

Option 4

Yes, but only some men

discoursepunctccadvmoddetrootYesINTJ,PUNCTbutCCONJonlyADVsomeDETmenNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1YesyesINTJPolarity=Pos6 mendiscourse
2,,PUNCT_1 Yespunct
3butbutCCONJ_6 mencc
4onlyonlyADV_6 menadvmod
5somesomeDETPronType=Ind6 mendet
6menmanNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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