Test 2 · ★★★ · Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★
Teacher wrote "Mia is sociable", no wait, she crossed it out and wrote "Mia talks over others". What does the final report say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Teacher, Mia, final report · What happens: write, be, cross out, talk, say · To what, where: wait, Teacher, others · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★» of the euphemisms 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: Teacher wrote "Mia is sociable", no wait, she crossed it out and wrote "Mia talks over others".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wrote | nsubj |
| 2 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sociable | punct |
| 4 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sociable | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sociable | cop |
| 6 | sociable | sociable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wrote | ccomp |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sociable | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wait | punct |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 wait | det |
| 10 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wrote | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crossed | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 crossed | nsubj |
| 13 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wrote | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 crossed | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 crossed | compound:prt |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wrote | cc |
| 17 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 crossed | conj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 talks | punct |
| 19 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 talks | nsubj |
| 20 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 wrote | ccomp |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 others | case |
| 22 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 talks | obl |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 talks | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wrote | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | Teacher | no wait | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Mia | sociable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cross out | past | Mia | Teacher | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | write | past | Mia not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | talk in a quote | present | Mia | others | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 does the final report say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 say | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 report | det |
| 4 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 report | amod |
| 5 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | the final report | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Mia is top of the class in maths
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 top | compound |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 top | cop |
| 3 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 class | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 class | det |
| 6 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 top | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 maths | case |
| 8 | maths | math | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 top | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Mia top | maths | of the class | tree rules |
Option 2
Mia makes friends easily in class
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 2 makes | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 class | case |
| 6 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Mia | friends | class | easily property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Product |
Option 3
Mia is quiet and shy in class
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 quiet | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 quiet | cop |
| 3 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 shy | cc |
| 5 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 quiet | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 class | case |
| 7 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quiet | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Mia | class | quiet property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | Mia not said here | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Mia talks over others in class
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 talks | nsubj |
| 2 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 others | case |
| 4 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 talks | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 class | case |
| 6 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 talks | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | present | Mia | others | in class | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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