Test 10 · Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report
«she's mardy cos she lost the match». How is she feeling?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she, mardy cos, cos · What happens: be, lose, feel · To what, where: mardy cos, match
This is test 10 of lesson 23 «Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report» 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: «she's mardy cos she lost the match».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 cos | punct |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cos | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cos | cop |
| 4 | mardy | mardy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cos | amod |
| 5 | cos | cos | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | nsubj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lost | nsubj |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 match | det |
| 9 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obj |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 lost | punct |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lost | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | she | mardy cos | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose in a quote | past | mardy cos | the match | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Eventuality |
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: How is she feeling?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 feeling | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 feeling | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 feeling | nsubj |
| 4 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 feeling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present · progressive | cos | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1
Proud and happy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 happy | cc |
| 3 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Proud | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Grumpy and sulky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sulky | cc |
| 3 | sulky | sulky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Grumpy | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Hungry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Scared of the dark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 dark | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dark | det |
| 4 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Scared | obl |
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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