Test 3 · ★ · Classroom rules and homework
A girl copies a whole page from a website for her project on whales. What is wrong with this?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: copy, project, be · To what, where: whole page, website
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 254 «Classroom rules and homework» 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 copies a whole page from a website for her project on whales.
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 | 3 copies | nsubj |
| 3 | copies | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 page | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 page | amod |
| 6 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 copies | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 website | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 website | det |
| 9 | website | website | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 copies | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 project | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 project | nmod:poss |
| 12 | project | project | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 copies | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 whales | case |
| 14 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 project | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 copies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | present | a girl | a whole page | a website | for girl's project on whales | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent page=Theme | ||
| 2 | project | girl | on whales | nom project «act transitive»: poss=agent on=obl |
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: What is wrong with this?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 wrong | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | with this; wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Nothing, everything on the internet is free to copy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 free | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 everything | punct |
| 3 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 internet | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 internet | det |
| 6 | internet | internet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 everything | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 free | cop |
| 8 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 copy | mark |
| 10 | copy | copy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 free | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nothing | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | copy | to-infinitive | Nothing not said here | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
The website will be closed down because of her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 website | det |
| 2 | website | website | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 closed | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 closed | aux:pass |
| 5 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 closed | compound:prt |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 her | mark |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 because | fixed |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 closed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close down | future · passive | the website | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
It is plagiarism, a kind of cheating
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 plagiarism | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 plagiarism | cop |
| 3 | plagiarism | plagiarism | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kind | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kind | det |
| 6 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plagiarism | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cheating | case |
| 8 | cheating | cheating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | plagiarism | tree rules |
Option 4
Whales do not like it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 like | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 like | advmod |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 like | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | present · do-support | Whales | it | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
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