Test 9 · Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check
Mum: «the app said great job so he must be reading great». Is she right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, app · What happens: say, read, be · To what, where: great job · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 of lesson 2 «Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check» 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: Mum: «the app said great job so he must be reading great».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 app | det |
| 5 | app | app | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 job | amod |
| 8 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 reading | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reading | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 reading | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 reading | aux |
| 13 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 reading | xcomp |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 reading | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Mum | great job | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent job=Topic | ||||
| 2 | read in a quote | must · progressive | app | great property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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: Is she right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 3 | right | right | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Mum | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Yes, any reading app is as good as a teacher
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 good | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 app | det |
| 4 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 app | compound |
| 5 | app | app | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 good | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 good | cop |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 good | advmod |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 teacher | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 teacher | det |
| 11 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 good | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | any reading app | as a teacher; good property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
No, apps make children forget how to read
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 make | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | apps | app | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | nsubj |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | xcomp |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 read | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 read | mark |
| 9 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 forget | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | apps | children | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forget | infinitive | children not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not read | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
No, the app praises everything, so it shows nothing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 praises | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 app | det |
| 4 | app | app | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 praises | nsubj |
| 5 | praises | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 praises | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shows | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 shows | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shows | nsubj |
| 10 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 praises | conj |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 shows | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | present | the app | everything | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | ||||
| 2 | show | present | app | nothing | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Recipient |
Option 4
Yes, apps always check reading better than people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 check | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | apps | app | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 check | nsubj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 check | advmod |
| 5 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | reading | read | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 check | xcomp |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 reading | xcomp |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 better | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | present | apps | always property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | read | gerund | apps not said here | good property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: 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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