Test 10 · Famous discoveries told as stories

Why is it worth telling the true story of a discovery, not just the legend?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: true story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 35 «Famous discoveries told as stories» of the chemistry 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 worth	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 worth	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 worth	expl
4	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 worth	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 story	amod
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 telling	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 discovery	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 discovery	det
11	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 story	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 legend	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 legend	advmod
14	just	just	ADV	_	16 legend	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 legend	det
16	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 telling	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 worth	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						worth property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	gerund		the true story of a discovery				the legend obl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The facts may differ from the famous tale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 facts	det
2	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 differ	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 differ	aux
4	differ	differ	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 tale	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tale	det
7	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tale	amod
8	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 differ	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	differ	may	the facts					from the famous tale	vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from tale=Co-Theme

Option 2

True stories are always shorter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stories	amod
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shorter	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shorter	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 shorter	advmod
5	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	True stories					always, short property	tree rules

Option 3

Only legends teach real science

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 legends	advmod
2	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 teach	nsubj
3	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 science	amod
5	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 teach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	present	legends	real science					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent science=Recipient

Option 4

Legends are always completely true in every detail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 true	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 true	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 true	advmod
4	completely	completely	ADV	_	5 true	advmod
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 detail	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 detail	det
8	detail	detail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 true	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Legends			every detail		always, completely, true property	tree rules

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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