Test 8 · ★ · Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares
Your teacher wants a fact, but your notes say «Chocolate ice cream is better than vanilla». What is the problem?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, notes, ice cream, your, problem · What happens: want, say, be, note · To what, where: fact · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Your teacher wants a fact, but your notes say «Chocolate ice cream is better than vanilla».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fact | det |
| 5 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 say | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 say | cc |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 notes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 say | nsubj |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wants | parataxis |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 better | punct |
| 12 | Chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ice | compound |
| 13 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cream | compound |
| 14 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 better | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 better | cop |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 say | ccomp |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 vanilla | case |
| 18 | vanilla | vanilla | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 better | obl |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 better | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Your teacher | a fact | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fact=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | your notes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | ice cream | than vanilla; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | note | your | nom note «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 is the problem?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 problem | det |
| 4 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the problem | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
It is an opinion, not a fact
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 | 4 opinion | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 opinion | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 opinion | det |
| 4 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fact | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 fact | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fact | det |
| 8 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opinion | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a opinion and a fact | tree rules |
Option 2
It is a fact if most people agree
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 | 4 fact | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fact | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fact | det |
| 4 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 agree | mark |
| 6 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 people | amod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 agree | nsubj |
| 8 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fact | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a fact | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree a condition, not said to happen | present | most people | a fact not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent fact=Topic |
Option 3
It is a fact about ice cream
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 | 4 fact | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fact | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fact | det |
| 4 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 cream | case |
| 6 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cream | compound |
| 7 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fact | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a fact | about ice cream | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
It is a fact because it is in your notes
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 | 4 fact | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fact | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fact | det |
| 4 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 notes | nsubj |
| 5 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fact | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 notes | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 notes | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 notes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a fact | because fact | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | a fact | your notes | 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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