Test 4 · ★ · Tests, exams and mistakes
A girl in Brisbane is so worried about NAPLAN that she cannot sleep. What is true?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: be, not sleep
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 255 «Tests, exams and mistakes» 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 Brisbane is so worried about NAPLAN that she cannot sleep.
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 | 7 worried | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Brisbane | case |
| 4 | Brisbane | Brisbane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 worried | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 worried | advmod |
| 7 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 NAPLAN | case |
| 9 | NAPLAN | NAPLAN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 worried | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 sleep | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sleep | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 sleep | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 sleep | advmod |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 worried | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 worried | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a girl in Brisbane | about NAPLAN; worried property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not sleep | can | girl | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 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 · ✓ the right answer
One test does not decide her future; her best is enough
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 test | nummod |
| 2 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 decide | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 decide | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 decide | advmod |
| 5 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 future | nmod:poss |
| 7 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 decide | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 best | punct |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 best | nmod:poss |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 decide | ccomp |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 best | cop |
| 12 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 decide | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not decide | present · do-support | One test | test's future | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent future=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | good property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
She should stay home on the test day
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 | 3 stay | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 stay | aux |
| 3 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 stay | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 7 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 day | compound |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stay | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | should | She | day | home property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
If she does badly she will have to leave school
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 4 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 have | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 leave | mark |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 have | xcomp |
| 10 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · do-support | she | badly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | she not said here | school | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Theme |
Option 4
NAPLAN alone decides which high school she will go to next year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NAPLAN | NAPLAN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 decides | nsubj |
| 2 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 decides | advmod |
| 3 | decides | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 school | nsubj |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 school | amod |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 decides | obj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | aux |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 decides | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 year | case |
| 11 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 year | amod |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | present | NAPLAN | alone property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | school | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | go | future | NAPLAN | year | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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