Test 6 · ★★★ · Olympiad: tricky comprehension
Liam in Leeds, dry: "Champion, me bike's got a puncture again." ("Champion" means great in Yorkshire.) How does he really feel?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dry Champion, Champion · What happens: get, mean, feel · To what, where: puncture
This is test 6 · ★★★ 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: Liam in Leeds, dry: "Champion, me bike's got a puncture again."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liam | Liam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dry | compound |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Leeds | case |
| 3 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Liam | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Liam | punct |
| 5 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Champion | amod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Champion | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Champion | punct |
| 8 | Champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Champion | punct |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 11 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | aux |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 puncture | det |
| 15 | puncture | puncture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 got | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present · passive | dry Champion | a puncture | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer puncture=Stimulus |
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: ("Champion" means great in Yorkshire.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Champion | punct |
| 3 | Champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Champion | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Yorkshire | case |
| 8 | Yorkshire | Yorkshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 great | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Champion | great property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: How does he really feel?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 feel | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feel | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 feel | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 feel | advmod |
| 5 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 feel | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present · do-support | Champion | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Calm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Annoyed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Pleased
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pleased | please | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | please | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
Proud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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