Test 1 · ★ · Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares

Which statement could be checked with a ruler or a book?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ruler · What happens: check · To what, where: statement

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 284 «Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 statement	det
2	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 checked	nsubj:pass
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 checked	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 checked	aux:pass
5	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 ruler	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ruler	det
8	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 checked	obl:agent
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 book	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 book	det
11	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ruler	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 checked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	could · passive	a ruler or a book	which statement					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

«Blue is the nicest colour»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 colour	punct
2	Blue	Blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 colour	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 colour	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 colour	det
5	nicest	nice	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 colour	amod
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 colour	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Blue	the nicest colour					tree rules

Option 2

«Winter is the worst season of the whole year»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 season	punct
2	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 season	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 season	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 season	det
5	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 season	amod
6	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 year	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 year	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 year	amod
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 season	nmod
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 season	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Winter	the worst season			year		tree rules

Option 3

«Rivers are boring»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 boring	punct
2	Rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 boring	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 boring	cop
4	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 boring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Rivers					boring property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

«The Nile is one of the longest rivers in the world»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Nile	det
3	Nile	Nile	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 one	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 rivers	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rivers	det
8	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 rivers	amod
9	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 world	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rivers	nmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the Nile	one				of the longest rivers in the world	tree rules

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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