Test 9 · Editing and redrafting
★★★ A story says: "I runned to the shop and buyed some sweets, then I eat them all." How many verbs need fixing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, story, many verbs · What happens: ★, say, runn, buye, eat, need · To what, where: sweets · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 of lesson 43 «Editing and redrafting» 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: ★★★ A story says: "I runned to the shop and buyed some sweets, then I eat them all."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | nsubj |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ★ | conj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 runned | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 runned | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 runned | nsubj |
| 10 | runned | runn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 says | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 shop | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shop | det |
| 13 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 runned | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 buyed | cc |
| 15 | buyed | buye | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 runned | conj |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 sweets | det |
| 17 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 buyed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 eat | punct |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 eat | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 eat | nsubj |
| 21 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 runned | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 eat | obj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | present | ★ | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | a story | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | runn in a quote | past | a story = story | to the shop | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | buye in a quote | past | a story = story not said here | some sweets | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | eat in a quote | present | a story = story | sweets = sweet | then | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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: How many verbs need fixing?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 verbs | amod |
| 3 | verbs | verb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 need | nsubj |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fixing | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 need | xcomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 need | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | many verbs | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fix not said to happen | gerund | many verbs not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Five
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
One
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Three
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 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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