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Test 3 · Vocabulary in context

Leo: «treacherous means pretty, cos paths are pretty». What is the problem?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Leo, problem · What happens: mean, be

This is test 3 of lesson 20 «Vocabulary in context» 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: Leo: «treacherous means pretty, cos paths are pretty».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
4	treacherous	treacherous	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	5 means	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pretty	punct
8	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	9 paths	case
9	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pretty	obl
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 pretty	cop
11	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	5 means	advmod
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 pretty	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean in a quote	present	Leo					pretty property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present						cos paths; pretty property	tree rules

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 is the problem?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 problem	det
4	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the problem						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, his meaning works perfectly well in the sentence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 works	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 meaning	nmod:poss
4	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 works	nsubj
5	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	7 well	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 works	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 sentence	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sentence	det
10	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Nothing					in the sentence; well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sentence=Theme
2	mean		his = he						nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He ignored the clues about loose stones and steep drops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignored	nsubj
2	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 clues	det
4	clues	clue	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ignored	obj
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 stones	case
6	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stones	amod
7	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clues	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 drops	cc
9	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 drops	amod
10	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stones	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	past	He	the clues				about loose stones and steep drops	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Theme

Option 3

Paths can't be pretty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 be	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 be	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 be	advmod
4	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	4 be	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not can	can	Paths					pretty property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He spelt it wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spelt	nsubj
2	spelt	spelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spelt	obj
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 spelt	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spelt	past	He	it				wrong property	tree rules

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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