Test 2 · ★ · Being trusted and what to do with things you find
A girl helps the teacher by marking spelling tests and sees her best friend got three wrong. What is fair?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, best friend · What happens: help, mark, see, get, be · To what, where: teacher, spelling tests · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 286 «Being trusted and what to do with things you find» 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 helps the teacher by marking spelling tests and sees her best friend got three wrong.
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 | 3 helps | nsubj |
| 3 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 teacher | det |
| 5 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 helps | obj |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 marking | mark |
| 7 | marking | mark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 helps | advcl |
| 8 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tests | compound |
| 9 | tests | test | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 marking | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sees | cc |
| 11 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 helps | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friend | nmod:poss |
| 13 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 friend | amod |
| 14 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | nsubj |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sees | ccomp |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 wrong | nummod |
| 17 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 got | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 helps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | a girl | the teacher | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | mark | gerund | a girl not said here | spelling tests | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent test=Destination | ||||
| 3 | see | present | a girl not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | get | past | girl's best friend | wrong property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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 fair?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 fair | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fair | cop |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fair | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fair property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Give her friend extra points
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | iobj |
| 4 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 points | amod |
| 5 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Give | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | extra points | her friend | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient point=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Mark them all honestly, the same for everyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mark | Mark | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Mark | flat |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 1 Mark | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 same | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 same | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Mark | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 everyone | case |
| 9 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 same | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Mark her friend's as right
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mark | Mark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | compound |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 friend | case |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 right | advmod |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 friend | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Let her friend fix them first before handing them back in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 4 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fix | obj |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 fix | advmod |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 handing | mark |
| 8 | handing | hand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 fix | advcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 handing | obj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 handing | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 8 handing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fix | infinitive | her = she not said here | them = they | first property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 3 | hand back | gerund | her = she not said here | them = they | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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