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Test 6 · Vocabulary in context

In a cartoon, a teacher says «The road is treacherous» and the kids think it's a road that tells lies. What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, road, kids · What happens: say, be, think, tell · To what, where: cartoon, road, lies · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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: In a cartoon, a teacher says «The road is treacherous» and the kids think it's a road that tells lies.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 teacher	det
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 treacherous	punct
9	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 treacherous	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 treacherous	cop
12	treacherous	treacherous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 says	ccomp
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 treacherous	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 think	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 kids	det
16	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 think	nsubj
17	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 road	nsubj
19	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 road	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 road	det
21	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 think	ccomp
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 tells	nsubj
23	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 road	acl:relcl
24	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 tells	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a teacher			a cartoon			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in cartoon=Manner
2	is in a quote	present	the road					treacherous property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	present	the kids						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	road	a road					tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	present	a road	lies					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient

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 true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Treacherous only means telling lies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Treacherous	Treacherous	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 means	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 means	advmod
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 means	xcomp
5	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 telling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Treacherous						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	gerund	Treacherous not said here	lies					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient

Option 2

Treacherous means bumpy and fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Treacherous	Treacherous	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bumpy	bumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fun	cc
5	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bumpy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Treacherous					bumpy property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Roads can lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lie	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lie	aux
3	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	can	Roads						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Here treacherous means dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 treacherous	advmod
2	treacherous	treacherous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 means	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	treacherous					dangerous property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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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