Test 1 · ★ · Honest work at school
A boy in Glasgow copies a whole page about volcanoes from a website and hands it in. What would be the honest way?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: copy, hand in, be · To what, where: whole page, website, page, honest way
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 201 «Honest work at school» 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 boy in Glasgow copies a whole page about volcanoes from a website and hands it in.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 copies | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Glasgow | case |
| 4 | Glasgow | Glasgow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | copies | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 page | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 page | amod |
| 8 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 copies | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 volcanoes | case |
| 10 | volcanoes | volcano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 page | nmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 website | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 website | det |
| 13 | website | website | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 copies | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hands | cc |
| 15 | hands | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 copies | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hands | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hands | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 copies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | present | a boy in Glasgow | a whole page | a website | about volcanoes | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent page=Theme about volcano=Destination | ||
| 2 | hand in | present | a boy in Glasgow not said here | page | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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 would be the honest way?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 way | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 way | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 5 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 way | amod |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | the honest way | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Change a few words and keep the rest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Change | change | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 words | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 words | amod |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Change | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 keep | cc |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Change | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rest | det |
| 8 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keep | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | imperative | you not said here | a few words | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | the rest | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme |
Option 2
Print it out and stick it in his book
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root | ||
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Print | obj |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Print | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stick | cc |
| 5 | stick | stick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Print | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stick | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 book | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 book | nmod:poss |
| 9 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stick | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | print out | imperative | you not said here | it | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stick | infinitive | you not said here | it | his book | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in book=Destination |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Write it in his own words and say where the facts came from
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Write | write | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Write | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 words | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 words | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 words | amod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Write | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 say | cc |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Write | conj |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 came | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 facts | det |
| 11 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | ccomp |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 came | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | imperative | you not said here | it | his own words | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in word=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the facts | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | word | his = he | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
Copy it from two websites instead of one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Copy | copy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Copy | obj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 websites | case |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 websites | nummod |
| 5 | websites | website | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Copy | obl |
| 6 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 8 one | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 instead | fixed |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Copy | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | imperative | you not said here | it | two websites | instead one | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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