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Test 3 · ★ · Prediction: what happens next

«bro I predicted the ending wrong so I failed». Did he fail?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, I · What happens: predict, fail · To what, where: ending

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 19 «Prediction: what happens next» 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: «bro I predicted the ending wrong so I failed».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 predicted	punct
2	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 predicted	nsubj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 predicted	nsubj
4	predicted	predict	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ending	det
6	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 predicted	obj
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 predicted	xcomp
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 failed	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 failed	nsubj
10	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 predicted	advcl
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 predicted	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 predicted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	predict in a quote	past	bro	the ending				wrong property	vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ending=Topic
2	fail in a quote	past	I						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: Did he fail?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fail	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fail	nsubj
3	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fail	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail	past · do-support	bro						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, predictions must always come true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	predictions	prediction	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 come	advmod
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 come	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	must	predictions					always, true property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, wrong predictions score zero

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 score	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 predictions	amod
4	predictions	prediction	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 score	compound
5	score	score	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	zero	zero	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 score	flat

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

Option 3

No, but only because he guessed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 guessed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 guessed	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 guessed	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 guessed	advmod
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 guessed	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 guessed	nsubj
7	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	past	he						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, a prediction is good if it fits the evidence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 good	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 prediction	det
4	prediction	prediction	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 good	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 good	cop
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 fits	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fits	nsubj
9	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 good	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 evidence	det
11	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fits	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a prediction					good property	tree rules
2	fit a condition, not said to happen	present	prediction	the evidence					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Patient

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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