Test 4 · Vocabulary in context
★★★ «The puppy was not famished, but he was certainly peckish.» Which is closest to the meaning of peckish?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: puppy · What happens: not famish, be · To what, where: ★
This is test 4 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: ★★★ «The puppy was not famished, but he was certainly peckish.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 famished | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 famished | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 puppy | det |
| 6 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 famished | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 famished | aux:pass |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 famished | advmod |
| 9 | famished | famish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 peckish | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 peckish | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 peckish | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 peckish | cop |
| 14 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 15 peckish | advmod |
| 15 | peckish | peckish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 famished | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 famished | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 famished | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not famish in a quote | past · passive | ★ | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | puppy | certainly, peckish 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: Which is closest to the meaning of peckish?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 closest | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 closest | cop |
| 3 | closest | close | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 meaning | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 meaning | det |
| 6 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 closest | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 peckish | case |
| 8 | peckish | peckish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 meaning | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 closest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | to the meaning of peckish; close property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A little hungry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 little | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hungry | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Not hungry at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 hungry | advmod |
| 2 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 hungry | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Very, very hungry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 4 hungry | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Very | punct |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 hungry | advmod |
| 4 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Thirsty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
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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