Test 3 · ★★★ · Relative clauses
★★ «The dog which was barking loudly, ran away.» What is missing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog, ★ · What happens: bark, run away, be
This is test 3 · ★★★ 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: ★★ «The dog which was barking loudly, ran away.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 dog | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | appos |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 barking | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 barking | aux |
| 8 | barking | bark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 dog | acl:relcl |
| 9 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 8 barking | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 ran | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bark in a quote | past · progressive | the dog | loudly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | run away in a quote | past | ★ | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 is missing?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 missing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 missing | cop |
| 3 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 missing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | missing property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A comma after «ran»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 comma | det |
| 2 | comma | comma | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 ran | mark |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 comma | acl |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 comma | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run in a quote | past | a comma not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
A full stop after «dog»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 stop | det |
| 2 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stop | amod |
| 3 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 dog | case |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 dog | punct |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stop | nmod |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 stop | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nothing, it is correct
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 correct | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 correct | cop |
| 5 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Nothing | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | correct property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A comma after «dog»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 comma | det |
| 2 | comma | comma | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 dog | case |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 dog | punct |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comma | nmod |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 comma | punct |
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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