Test 11 · ★★ · The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301…
«a friend ate some shiny black berries from the park, should we just not tell anyone?» What is the right thing to do?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend, we, right thing · What happens: eat, not tell, be, do · To what, where: shiny black berries, park, anyone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 400 «The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399» 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: «a friend ate some shiny black berries from the park, should we just not tell anyone?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 ate | punct |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 friend | det |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ate | nsubj |
| 4 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 berries | det |
| 6 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 berries | amod |
| 7 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 berries | amod |
| 8 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ate | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 park | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 park | det |
| 11 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 berries | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tell | punct |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | aux |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | nsubj |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 tell | advmod |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 tell | advmod |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ate | conj |
| 18 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 tell | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 ate | punct |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 ate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat in a quote | past | a friend | some shiny black berries | the park | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient | |||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert in a quote | should | we | anyone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient |
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 the right thing to do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thing | acl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the right thing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | the right thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Give the friend more berries to compare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 friend | det |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 berries | amod |
| 5 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Give | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 compare | mark |
| 7 | compare | compare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Give | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | more berries | the friend | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient berry=Theme | |||
| 2 | compare | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Tell a grown-up straight away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 grown | det |
| 3 | grown | grown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tell | obj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 up | punct |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 grown | compound |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 7 away | advmod |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Tell | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | a grown | away property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown=Recipient |
Option 3
Keep it secret so nobody is cross
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Keep | obj |
| 3 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Keep | xcomp |
| 4 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 7 cross | mark |
| 5 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 cross | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cross | cop |
| 7 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Keep | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | it | secret property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | nobody | cross property | tree rules |
Option 4
Wait until tomorrow to see what happens
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | until | until | ADP | _ | 3 tomorrow | case |
| 3 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 happens | nsubj |
| 7 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | tomorrow | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | happen | present | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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