Test 5 · ★ · Tests, exams and mistakes
Leo forges his mum's signature on a bad test, and the teacher phones home. What happens?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Leo, teacher, mum · What happens: forge, phone, sign, happen · To what, where: signature, bad test
This is test 5 · ★ 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: Leo forges his mum's signature on a bad test, and the teacher phones home.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 forges | nsubj |
| 2 | forges | forge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mum | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 signature | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 mum | case |
| 6 | signature | signature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 forges | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 test | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 test | det |
| 9 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 test | amod |
| 10 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 forges | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 phones | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 phones | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 teacher | det |
| 14 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 phones | nsubj |
| 15 | phones | phone | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 forges | conj |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 phones | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 forges | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forge | present | Leo | Leo's mum's signature | a bad test | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent signature=Theme on test=Destination | |||
| 2 | phone | present | the teacher | home property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sign | Leo's mum | nom signature «communication transitive»: poss=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 happens?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
His mum is pleased he did not worry her
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 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | cop |
| 4 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 worry | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 worry | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 worry | advmod |
| 8 | worry | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pleased | parataxis |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 worry | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | His mum | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not worry | past · do-support | he | her = she | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
Option 2
Nobody minds, because the mark was bad anyway
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 minds | nsubj |
| 2 | minds | mind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bad | punct |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 bad | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mark | det |
| 6 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bad | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bad | cop |
| 8 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 minds | advcl |
| 9 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 8 bad | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mind | present | Nobody | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the mark | anyway, bad property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The trouble is much bigger than the bad mark would have been
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 trouble | det |
| 2 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bigger | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bigger | cop |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 bigger | advmod |
| 5 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 mark | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mark | det |
| 8 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mark | amod |
| 9 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bigger | obl |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 mark | aux |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bigger | conj |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 have | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the trouble | than the bad mark; big property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | infinitive | the trouble not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
The teacher raises his mark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raises | nsubj |
| 3 | raises | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mark | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raises | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | present | the teacher | teacher's mark | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mark | teacher | nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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