Test 2 · Retrieval: finding the answer in the text
Mia writes 3:15 for «When did the bus arrive?» What did she do wrong?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mia, bus · What happens: write, arrive, do · To what, where: 3:15
This is test 2 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: Mia writes 3:15 for «When did the bus arrive?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 writes | nsubj |
| 2 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 3:15 | 3:15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 writes | obj |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 arrive | mark |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 arrive | punct |
| 6 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 arrive | advmod |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 arrive | aux |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bus | det |
| 9 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arrive | nsubj |
| 10 | arrive | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 writes | advcl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 writes | punct |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 writes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present | Mia | 3:15 | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 3:15=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arrive in a quote | past · do-support | the bus | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 did she do wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · do-support | Mia | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1
Nothing, she copied the number from the text
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 copied | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 copied | nsubj |
| 4 | copied | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 number | det |
| 6 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 copied | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 text | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 text | det |
| 9 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 copied | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | past | Nothing | the number | the text | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
She copied when it left, not when it arrived
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 copied | nsubj |
| 2 | copied | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 left | advmod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 left | nsubj |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 copied | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 arrived | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 arrived | advmod |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 arrived | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 arrived | nsubj |
| 10 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 copied | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | past | She | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | leave | past | it | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not arrive | past | it | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
She should have written twenty past three
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 | 4 written | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 written | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 written | aux |
| 4 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 written | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | past | past | ADP | _ | 7 three | case |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 twenty | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | should · perfect | She | twenty past three | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
She added the 20 minutes the wrong way round
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 added | nsubj |
| 2 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 minutes | det |
| 4 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 minutes | nummod |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 added | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 added | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | round | round | ADV | _ | 2 added | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | She | the wrong way | minute | round property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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