Test 11 · The butterfly house
Your class wants to help red admirals at school. What could you leave in a corner?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: class, you · What happens: want, help, leave · To what, where: red admirals, school, corner
This is test 11 of lesson 98 «The butterfly house» 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: Your class wants to help red admirals at school.
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 class | nmod:poss |
| 2 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 help | mark |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wants | xcomp |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 admirals | amod |
| 7 | admirals | admiral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 help | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 school | case |
| 9 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 help | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Your class | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | Your class not said here | red admirals | school | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent admiral=Beneficiary |
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 could you leave in a corner?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 leave | obj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | nsubj |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 corner | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 corner | det |
| 7 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | could | you | a corner | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent what=Theme in corner=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A pile of plastic
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pile | det |
| 2 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 plastic | case |
| 4 | plastic | plastic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pile | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A heap of sand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 heap | det |
| 2 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 sand | case |
| 4 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heap | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A bowl of salt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bowl | det |
| 2 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 salt | case |
| 4 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bowl | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A patch of nettles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 patch | det |
| 2 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 nettles | case |
| 4 | nettles | nettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 patch | nmod |
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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