Test 6 · Sounds that warn
A neighbour's smoke alarm chirps once a minute and nothing smells of smoke. What is most likely?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: smoke alarm, neighbour, smoke · What happens: chirp, alarm, smell, be
This is test 6 of lesson 12 «Sounds that warn» of the everyday 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: A neighbour's smoke alarm chirps once a minute and nothing smells of smoke.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 neighbour | det |
| 2 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 alarm | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 neighbour | case |
| 4 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 alarm | compound |
| 5 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chirps | nsubj |
| 6 | chirps | chirp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 chirps | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 minute | det |
| 9 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 once | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 smells | cc |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 smells | compound |
| 12 | smells | smell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 minute | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 smoke | case |
| 14 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 smells | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 chirps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chirp | present | a neighbour's smoke alarm | once property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | alarm | a neighbour | nom alarm «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 3 | smell | smoke | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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 is most likely?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 likely | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 likely | cop |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 likely | advmod |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 likely | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | likely property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A low battery
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 battery | det |
| 2 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 battery | amod |
| 3 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A big fire next door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fire | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fire | amod |
| 3 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 door | compound |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 door | amod |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A burglar in the house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 burglar | det |
| 2 | burglar | burglar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 burglar | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A broken window
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 window | det |
| 2 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 window | amod |
| 3 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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