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Test 10 · Retrieval: finding the answer in the text

Text: «Hedgehogs eat beetles, worms and slugs.» Q: «Name two things hedgehogs eat.» Which answer gets the mark?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hedgehogs, answer · What happens: eat, name, get · To what, where: beetles, two things, mark

This is test 10 of lesson 17 «Retrieval: finding the answer in the text» 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: Text: «Hedgehogs eat beetles, worms and slugs.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct
4	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	nsubj
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Text	parataxis
6	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 worms	punct
8	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 beetles	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 slugs	cc
10	slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 beetles	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	present	Hedgehogs	beetles and worms and slugs					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beetle=Patient

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: Q: «Name two things hedgehogs eat.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Q	Q	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Name	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 Name	punct
4	Name	name	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Q	appos
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 things	nummod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Name	obj
7	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eat	nsubj
8	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 things	acl:relcl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Name	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 Name	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name in a quote	infinitive		two things					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	eat in a quote	present	hedgehogs	two things not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient

Sentence 3: Which answer gets the mark?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 answer	det
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mark	det
5	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 gets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	which answer	the mark					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Slugs and stuff like that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 stuff	cc
3	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Slugs	conj
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Slugs	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Worms and slugs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 slugs	cc
3	slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Worms	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Things in the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 garden	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 garden	det
4	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Things	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Bugs and food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bugs	bug	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 food	cc
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bugs	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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