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Test 9 · ★ · Reading a story: characters, plot and setting

Mum: «Did you like the ending?» Leo: «Nah, it was mid.» Mum: «Why?» Leo: «Dunno.» What's missing from Leo's opinion?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, ending, Leo · What happens: like, be, opine · To what, where: ending, opinion

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 22 «Reading a story: characters, plot and setting» 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: «Did you like the ending?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
4	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 like	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 like	nsubj
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mum	appos
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ending	det
8	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 like	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like in a quote	past · do-support	you	the ending					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ending=Theme

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: Leo: «Nah, it was mid.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 mid	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 mid	punct
4	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 mid	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Nah	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 mid	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mid	cop
8	mid	mid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Leo	parataxis
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 mid	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 mid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	ending					mid property	tree rules

Sentence 3: Mum: «Why?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Why	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Why	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 Why	punct
4	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Why	punct
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 Why	punct

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

Sentence 4: Leo: «Dunno.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Dunno	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Dunno	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 Dunno	punct
4	Dunno	Dunno	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Dunno	punct
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 Dunno	punct

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

Sentence 5: What's missing from Leo's opinion?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 missing	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 missing	cop
3	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 opinion	case
5	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 opinion	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Leo	case
7	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 missing	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 missing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				Leo's opinion		missing property	tree rules
2	opine		Leo						nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A better title

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 title	det
2	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 title	amod
3	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

More slang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 slang	amod
2	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A reason

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 reason	det
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A spelling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spelling	det
2	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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