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Test 4 · ★★★ · Olympiad: tricky comprehension

"The ball broke the window because it was weak." What was weak?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ball · What happens: break, be · To what, where: window

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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: "The ball broke the window because it was weak."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 broke	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ball	det
3	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	nsubj
4	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 window	det
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	obj
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 weak	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 weak	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 weak	cop
10	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 broke	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 broke	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 broke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break in a quote	past	the ball	the window					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer window=Patient
2	is in a quote	past	ball					weak 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: What was weak?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 weak	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 weak	cop
3	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 weak	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						weak property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Neither one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The ball

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ball	det
2	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 window	det
2	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Both of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Both	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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