Test 11 · ★★★ · Olympiad: tricky comprehension
"Nobody in the team is not tired." Is anyone in the team tired?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nobody, anyone · What happens: not be, be
This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 60 «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» 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: "Nobody in the team is not tired."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 tired | punct |
| 2 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 tired | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 team | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 team | det |
| 5 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Nobody | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tired | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 tired | advmod |
| 8 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tired | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 tired | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | Nobody | tired 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: Is anyone in the team tired?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tired | cop |
| 2 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 tired | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 team | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 team | det |
| 5 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 anyone | nmod |
| 6 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 tired | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | anyone | tired property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Only some of them are
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 some | advmod |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 some | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 some | cop |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
No: nobody is tired
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 nobody | det |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 tired | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tired | cop |
| 5 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | nobody | tired property | tree rules |
Option 3
The text doesn't say
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 text | det |
| 2 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 say | advmod |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | present · do-support | the text | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yes: everyone is tired
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 tired | discourse |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 tired | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tired | cop |
| 5 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | everyone | tired property | tree rules |
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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