Test 8 · Famous discoveries told as stories
"Rosalind Franklin got loads of credit for DNA right away". What's true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rosalind · What happens: get, be · To what, where: loads
This is test 8 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: "Rosalind Franklin got loads of credit for DNA right away".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 2 | Rosalind | Rosalind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | Franklin | Franklin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Rosalind | flat |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 credit | case |
| 7 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loads | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 DNA | case |
| 9 | DNA | DNA | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 credit | nmod |
| 10 | right | right | ADV | _ | 11 away | advmod |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past | Rosalind | loads of credit for DNA | away property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer load=Stimulus |
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
She was the only one who worked on it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 one | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 one | det |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 worked | nsubj |
| 7 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | acl:relcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 worked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | She | the only one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | work | past | the only one | on it | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on it=Theme |
Option 2
She got the Nobel Prize all by herself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prize | det |
| 4 | Nobel | Nobel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Prize | compound |
| 5 | Prize | Prize | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 herself | advmod |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 herself | case |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 got | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | She | the Nobel Prize | by herself = she | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prize=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Her part was overlooked at first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 part | nmod:poss |
| 2 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overlooked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overlooked | aux:pass |
| 4 | overlooked | overlook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 first | case |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 overlooked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overlook | past · passive | Her part | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 4
She discovered penicillin as well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 discovered | nsubj |
| 2 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | penicillin | penicillin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 discovered | obj |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 2 discovered | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 as | fixed |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | She | penicillin | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penicillin=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chemistry/35-famous-discoveries-stories/t8/