Test 12 · ★ · Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-, il-, ir-
★★★ «Subheading» means a heading under the main one. What would «sub-zero» most likely mean?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, sub-zero · What happens: mean · To what, where: heading
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 12 «Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-, il-, ir-» of the English 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: ★★★ «Subheading» means a heading under the main one.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | _ | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 Subheading | punct |
| 5 | Subheading | subheading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | appos |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 Subheading | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 heading | det |
| 9 | heading | heading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obj |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 12 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | amod |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heading | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | ★ ★ ★ | a heading | under the main one | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heading=Topic |
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 would «sub-zero» most likely mean?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 mean | obj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 mean | aux |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 sub-zero | punct |
| 4 | sub-zero | sub-zero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mean | nsubj |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 sub-zero | punct |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 likely | advmod |
| 7 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 8 mean | advmod |
| 8 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | would | sub-zero | likely property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Below zero
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Below | below | ADV | _ | 2 zero | advmod |
| 2 | zero | zero | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Exactly zero
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 2 zero | advmod |
| 2 | zero | zero | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A little above zero
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 little | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 zero | advmod |
| 3 | above | above | ADP | _ | 4 zero | case |
| 4 | zero | zero | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Zero, again and again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zero | zero | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 again | punct |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Zero | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 again | cc |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 again | conj |
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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