Test 1 · ★ · Respect for first peoples, older people and people with di…
A girl in Perth hears an Aboriginal storyteller at a school assembly. Why does his culture deserve special respect?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, culture · What happens: hear, deserve · To what, where: Aboriginal storyteller, school assembly, special respect
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 227 «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» 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 Perth hears an Aboriginal storyteller at a school assembly.
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 | 5 hears | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Perth | case |
| 4 | Perth | Perth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 storyteller | det |
| 7 | Aboriginal | aboriginal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 storyteller | amod |
| 8 | storyteller | storyteller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hears | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 assembly | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 assembly | det |
| 11 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 assembly | compound |
| 12 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hears | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hears | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | a girl in Perth | a Aboriginal storyteller | a school assembly | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer storyteller=Stimulus |
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 does his culture deserve special respect?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 deserve | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 deserve | aux |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 culture | nmod:poss |
| 4 | culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deserve | nsubj |
| 5 | deserve | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 respect | amod |
| 7 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deserve | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 deserve | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deserve | present · do-support | Perth's culture | special respect | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
His people are the first peoples of that land
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 people | nmod:poss |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 peoples | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 peoples | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 peoples | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 peoples | amod |
| 6 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 land | det |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 peoples | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | His people | the first peoples | of that land | tree rules |
Option 2
The school will test her on it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 school | det |
| 2 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 test | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 test | aux |
| 4 | test | test | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 test | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 test | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | test | future | the school | her = she | it | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
Option 3
The stories are only there for entertainment, like a film
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stories | det |
| 2 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 there | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 there | advmod |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 entertainment | case |
| 7 | entertainment | entertainment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 there | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 film | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 film | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 film | det |
| 11 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entertainment | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the stories | for entertainment and a film; there property | tree rules |
Option 4
It is polite to listen to any visitor once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 polite | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 polite | cop |
| 3 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 listen | mark |
| 5 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 polite | csubj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 visitor | case |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 visitor | det |
| 8 | visitor | visitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 listen | obl |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 listen | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | polite property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | listen | to-infinitive | to any visitor; once property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to visitor=Theme |
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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