Test 14 · ★ · Honest work at school
Jake copied all his science homework and then failed the science test. Why?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jake · What happens: copy, fail · To what, where: science homework, science test
This is test 14 · ★ 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: Jake copied all his science homework and then failed the science test.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 copied | nsubj |
| 2 | copied | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 homework | det:predet |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 homework | nmod:poss |
| 5 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 homework | compound |
| 6 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 copied | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 failed | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 failed | advmod |
| 9 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 copied | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 test | det |
| 11 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 test | compound |
| 12 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 failed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 copied | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | past | Jake | Jake's science homework | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fail | past | Jake not said here | the science test | then | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Eventuality |
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: Why?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The test was about different things
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 test | det |
| 2 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 things | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 things | cop |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 things | case |
| 5 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 things | amod |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the test | about different things | tree rules |
Option 2
The teacher marked him harder on purpose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 marked | nsubj |
| 3 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 marked | obj |
| 5 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 marked | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 purpose | case |
| 7 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 marked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | past | the teacher | him = he | purpose | hard property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on purpose=Destination |
Option 3
Copying makes you forget faster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Copying | copy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 5 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 forget | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | gerund | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | make | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | forget | infinitive | you not said here | fast property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
He never learned the work himself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 learned | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 learned | advmod |
| 3 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 work | det |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 learned | obj |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 learned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not learn | past | He | the work | himself = he obl | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic |
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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