Test 1 · ★★★ · Relative clauses
«it's 'the boy which won', which is for everything innit». What's right?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: it, boy · What happens: be, win · To what, where: boy
This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Relative clauses» 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: «it's 'the boy which won', which is for everything innit».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 boy | punct |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 boy | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 boy | cop |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 boy | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 won | nsubj |
| 8 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 boy | acl:relcl |
| 9 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 8 won | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 innit | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 innit | cop |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 innit | case |
| 13 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 innit | compound |
| 14 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 won | parataxis |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 boy | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 boy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | it | the boy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | win in a quote | past | the boy | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | for everything innit | 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: What's right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
What is the standard word for people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 word | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 word | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 4 | standard | standard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 word | amod |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 people | case |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 word | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the standard word | for people | tree rules |
Option 2
Which is right for people and things
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 people | case |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 right | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 things | cc |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 people | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | for people and things; right property | tree rules |
Option 3
Whose is the right word here, because the boy owns the race
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 5 word | nmod:poss |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 word | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 word | amod |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 word | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 owns | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 owns | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 owns | nsubj |
| 11 | owns | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 word | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 race | det |
| 13 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 owns | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the right word | here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | own | present | the boy | the race | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot race=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Who is for people: «the boy who won»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 people | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 people | cop |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 people | case |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 people | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 boy | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boy | det |
| 8 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 people | appos |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 won | nsubj |
| 10 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 boy | acl:relcl |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 boy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | for people | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | win in a quote | past | the boy | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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