Test 6 · ★ · The library and books
You want to read about the real life of Abraham Lincoln. Which kind of book do you choose?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: want, read, choose · To what, where: kind
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 259 «The library and books» 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: You want to read about the real life of Abraham Lincoln.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 want | nsubj |
| 2 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 read | mark |
| 4 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 want | xcomp |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 life | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 life | det |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 life | amod |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 read | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Lincoln | case |
| 10 | Abraham | Abraham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Lincoln | compound |
| 11 | Lincoln | Lincoln | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 life | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | You | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | read not said to happen | to-infinitive | You not said here | about the real life of Abraham Lincoln | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about life=Topic |
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: Which kind of book do you choose?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 choose | obj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 book | case |
| 4 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kind | nmod |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 choose | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 choose | nsubj |
| 7 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 choose | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | present · do-support | you | which kind of book | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A joke book
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 book | det |
| 2 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 book | compound |
| 3 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Non-fiction
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Non-fiction | non-fiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A book of fairy tales
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 book | det |
| 2 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 tales | case |
| 4 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tales | compound |
| 5 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 book | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Fiction
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fiction | fiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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