Test 1 · ★ · Compliments and respecting differences
A boy in Melbourne gets told his model ship is amazing. Which reply is best?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: model ship, reply · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: boy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 226 «Compliments and respecting differences» 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 Melbourne gets told his model ship is amazing.
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 | 6 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Melbourne | case |
| 4 | Melbourne | Melbourne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | aux:pass |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ship | nmod:poss |
| 8 | model | model | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ship | compound |
| 9 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 amazing | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 amazing | cop |
| 11 | amazing | amazing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 told | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | a boy in Melbourne | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | is | present | boy's model ship | amazing 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 reply is best?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 reply | det |
| 2 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 best | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 best | cop |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 best | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which reply | good property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
«It's terrible, the sail is wrong»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 terrible | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 terrible | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 terrible | cop |
| 4 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wrong | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sail | det |
| 7 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wrong | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wrong | cop |
| 9 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 terrible | conj |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 terrible | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | It | terrible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the sail | wrong property | tree rules |
Option 2
«Yes, mine is always the best»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 best | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 best | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 best | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 best | cop |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 best | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 best | det |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 best | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | mine | always, good property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
«Thanks, I worked hard on it»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 worked | punct |
| 2 | Thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 worked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thanks | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 worked | nsubj |
| 5 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 worked | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 worked | obl |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 worked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work in a quote | past | I | Thanks | on Thanks; hard property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on it=Theme |
Option 4
«I don't believe you mean that»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 believe | advmod |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | obj |
| 7 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 believe | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 mean | obj |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe in a quote | present · do-support | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | infinitive | I not said here | that | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
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