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Test 7 · Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report

«everyone knows hedgehogs are the cutest animal, it's a fact». Is it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone, hedgehogs, animal · What happens: know, be · To what, where: cutest animal, fact · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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: «everyone knows hedgehogs are the cutest animal, it's a fact».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 knows	nsubj
3	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 animal	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 animal	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 animal	det
7	cutest	cut	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 animal	amod
8	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knows	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fact	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fact	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fact	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fact	det
13	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knows	parataxis
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 fact	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	everyone						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a in a quote	present	hedgehogs	the cutest animal					tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	animal	a fact					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: Is it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Is	nsubj
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Is	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	animal						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it's in a report

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 report	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 report	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 report	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 report	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 report	det
7	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, that's an opinion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 opinion	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 opinion	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 opinion	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 opinion	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 opinion	det
6	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

No, hedgehogs are not animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 animals	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 animals	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 animals	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 animals	advmod
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	hedgehogs	animals					tree rules

Option 4

Yes, everyone knows it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 knows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 knows	nsubj
4	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	everyone	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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