Test 4 · ★ · Compliments and respecting differences
A new girl from Ukraine speaks three languages but makes small mistakes in English. Which is true?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: new girl · What happens: speak, make, be · To what, where: three languages, small mistakes, English · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ 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 new girl from Ukraine speaks three languages but makes small mistakes in English.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 speaks | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Ukraine | case |
| 5 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 girl | nmod |
| 6 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 languages | nummod |
| 8 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 speaks | obj |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 makes | cc |
| 10 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 speaks | conj |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mistakes | amod |
| 12 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 makes | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 English | case |
| 14 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 makes | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 speaks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | a new girl from Ukraine | three languages | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | present | a new girl from Ukraine not said here | small mistakes | English | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product |
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 is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
She should only speak once she is perfect
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 speak | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 speak | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 speak | advmod |
| 4 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 8 perfect | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 perfect | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 perfect | cop |
| 8 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 speak | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | should | She | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | she | perfect property | tree rules |
Option 2
Her mistakes show she is not clever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mistakes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 show | nsubj |
| 3 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 clever | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 clever | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 clever | advmod |
| 7 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 show | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Her mistakes | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | she | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mistake | Her = she | nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
Copying her mistakes would help her learn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Copying | copy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 help | csubj |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mistakes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Copying | obj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | aux |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 help | obj |
| 7 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 help | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | gerund | her mistakes | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Theme | |||||
| 2 | help | would | Copying | her = she | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | learn | infinitive | her = she not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | mistake | her = she | nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Speaking several languages is hard work and deserves respect
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 work | csubj |
| 2 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 languages | amod |
| 3 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Speaking | obj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 work | cop |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 work | amod |
| 6 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 deserves | cc |
| 8 | deserves | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 work | conj |
| 9 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 deserves | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | gerund | several languages | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Speaking | hard work | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | deserve | present | Speaking not said here | respect | tree rules |
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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