Test 6 · ★★★ · Olympiad: real languages and codes
Grandad from Glasgow, dry: "Kalikimaka? Sounds like some wee eejit misheard it." What is true?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wee eejit · What happens: sound, mishear, be · To what, where: it
This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 59 «Olympiad: real languages and codes» 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: Grandad from Glasgow, dry: "Kalikimaka?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dry | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 Glasgow | case |
| 3 | Glasgow | Glasgow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Grandad | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dry | punct |
| 5 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Kalikimaka | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Kalikimaka | punct |
| 8 | Kalikimaka | Kalikimaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dry | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 dry | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Sounds like some wee eejit misheard it."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 6 misheard | mark |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 eejit | det |
| 4 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eejit | amod |
| 5 | eejit | eejit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 misheard | nsubj |
| 6 | misheard | mishear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Sounds | advcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 misheard | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sounds | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sounds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | mishear | past | some wee eejit | it | tree rules |
Sentence 3: What is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
He's right: it was simply misheard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 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 | _ | 8 misheard | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 misheard | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 misheard | aux:pass |
| 7 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 8 misheard | advmod |
| 8 | misheard | mishear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 right | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mishear | past · passive | it | simply property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
It is really an Esperanto word
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 word | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 word | cop |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 word | advmod |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 5 | Esperanto | Esperanto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 word | compound |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a Esperanto word | tree rules |
Option 3
It is really a Japanese word
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 word | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 word | cop |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 word | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 5 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 word | amod |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a Japanese word | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
It follows Hawaiian's sound rules
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 follows | nsubj |
| 2 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 rules | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Hawaiian | case |
| 5 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rules | compound |
| 6 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 follows | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present | It | Hawaiian's sound rules | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rule | Hawaiian | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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