Test 10 · ★★ · Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries
«Dear Diary, I'm gutted, we lost again.» What does gutted mean?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dear Diary · What happens: gut, lose, mean · To what, where: I
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 24 «Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries» 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: «Dear Diary, I'm gutted, we lost again.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 Diary | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Diary | amod |
| 3 | Diary | Diary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Diary | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 gutted | nsubj |
| 6 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gutted | aux:pass |
| 7 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Diary | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Diary | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 lost | nsubj |
| 10 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 lost | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lost | punct |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 lost | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut in a quote | present · passive | I | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | |||||
| 2 | lose in a quote | past | Dear Diary | again | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 does gutted mean?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 mean | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present · do-support | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Very disappointed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 disappointed | advmod |
| 2 | disappointed | disappointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Very tired
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 tired | advmod |
| 2 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Very hungry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 hungry | advmod |
| 2 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Very happy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 happy | advmod |
| 2 | happy | happy | 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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