Test 1 · ★ · Litter and caring for nature
A boy in Wales eats a banana on the beach. Where should the peel go?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, peel · What happens: eat, go · To what, where: banana, beach
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 239 «Litter and caring for nature» 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 Wales eats a banana on the beach.
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 eats | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Wales | case |
| 4 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 banana | det |
| 7 | banana | banana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eats | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 beach | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beach | det |
| 10 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 banana | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 eats | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | a boy in Wales | a banana | the beach | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=Patient |
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: Where should the peel go?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 go | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 peel | det |
| 4 | peel | peel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | nsubj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | should | the peel | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Under a rock away from the path
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 rock | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rock | det |
| 3 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 away | obl |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 path | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 path | det |
| 7 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 away | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Into the sea for the fish to eat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 3 sea | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sea | det |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 fish | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fish | det |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sea | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 eat | mark |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fish | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Into the sand, where it will rot overnight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 3 sand | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sand | det |
| 3 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rot | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sand | punct |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 rot | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rot | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 rot | aux |
| 8 | rot | rot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | overnight | overnight | ADV | _ | 8 rot | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rot | future | sand | the sand | overnight property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
In a bin or back home in his bag
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 bin | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bin | det |
| 3 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 back | cc |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bin | conj |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 back | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 bag | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bag | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bin | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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