Test 3 · Famous discoveries told as stories
"Archimedes ran naked down the street shouting Eureka, that's history innit". What's true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Archimedes, that · What happens: run, shout, be · To what, where: street, Eureka, history innit
This is test 3 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
Sentence 1: "Archimedes ran naked down the street shouting Eureka, that's history innit".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
| 2 | Archimedes | Archimedes | PROPN | _ | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ran | xcomp |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 street | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 street | det |
| 7 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 8 | shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ran | advcl |
| 9 | Eureka | Eureka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 shouting | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 innit | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 innit | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 innit | cop |
| 13 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 innit | compound |
| 14 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Eureka | appos |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 innit | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run in a quote | past | Archimedes | the street | naked property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down street=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | shout speech: express in a quote | gerund | Archimedes not said here | Eureka | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eureka=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | that | history innit | 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's true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It is certain, it was filmed at the time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 certain | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 certain | cop |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 filmed | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 filmed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 filmed | aux:pass |
| 7 | filmed | film | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 certain | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filmed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | film | past · passive | it | time | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It may be a legend; the water idea is real
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 legend | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 legend | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 legend | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 legend | det |
| 5 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 legend | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 idea | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 idea | compound |
| 9 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 real | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 real | cop |
| 11 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 legend | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | may | It | a legend | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the water idea | real property | tree rules |
Option 3
He shouted it in English
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shouted | nsubj |
| 2 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shouted | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 English | case |
| 5 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 shouted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | He | it | English | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
Option 4
It never happened, and he had no bath
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 happened | advmod |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 had | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | conj |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 bath | det |
| 9 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not happen | past | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | he | no bath | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bath=Patient |
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