Test 11 · ★ · Word classes: the jobs words do
«that film was well good». Which word is working like «very» here?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: film, word · What happens: be, work
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 27 «Word classes: the jobs words do» 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: «that film was well good».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | punct |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 film | det |
| 3 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 good | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 good | cop |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 good | advmod |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | punct |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | that film | good, well property | 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: Which word is working like «very» here?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 working | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 working | aux |
| 4 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 here | case |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 here | punct |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 here | advmod |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 very | punct |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 working | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 working | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present · progressive | which word | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
that
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
good
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
film
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 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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