Test 7 · Remembering details
A girl in Brisbane is asked how tall a man was. Which answer is most useful?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: man, answer · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 of lesson 18 «Remembering details» 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 girl in Brisbane is asked how tall a man was.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Brisbane | case |
| 4 | Brisbane | Brisbane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 asked | aux:pass |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 tall | advmod |
| 8 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 asked | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tall | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tall | cop |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present · passive | a girl in Brisbane | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | is | past | a man | tall 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: Which answer is most useful?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 answer | det |
| 2 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 useful | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 useful | cop |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 useful | advmod |
| 5 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 useful | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which answer | useful property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Not that short
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 short | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 short | nsubj |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
About as tall as my dad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 tall | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 tall | advmod |
| 3 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 dad | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dad | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tall | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Medium, maybe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Medium | medium | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Medium | punct |
| 3 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 1 Medium | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Very tall, I think, quite big
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 tall | advmod |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 tall | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 big | punct |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 big | advmod |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tall | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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