Test 1 · ★ · Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities
A girl in Ohio wins the swimming race and her coach says, "Great swim!" Which reply is best?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, coach, reply · What happens: win, say, be · To what, where: swimming race, Great swim · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 298 «Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities» 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 in Ohio wins the swimming race and her coach says, "Great swim!"
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 | 5 wins | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ohio | case |
| 4 | Ohio | Ohio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 race | det |
| 7 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 race | compound |
| 8 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wins | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 says | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 coach | nmod:poss |
| 11 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 says | nsubj |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wins | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 swim | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 swim | punct |
| 15 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 swim | amod |
| 16 | swim | swim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 says | obj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 swim | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 swim | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present | a girl in Ohio | the swimming race | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | girl's coach | Great swim | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent swim=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 reply is best?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 reply | det |
| 2 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 best | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 best | cop |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 best | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which reply | good property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
"The others were so slow."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 slow | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 others | det |
| 3 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 slow | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 slow | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 slow | advmod |
| 6 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 slow | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 slow | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | the others | slow property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
"I always win."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 win | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 win | nsubj |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 win | advmod |
| 4 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 win | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 win | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win in a quote | present | I | always property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
"Thank you!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 2 | Thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Thank | obj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
Option 4
"I am the fastest in the whole state."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fastest | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 fastest | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fastest | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fastest | det |
| 5 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 state | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 state | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 state | amod |
| 9 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fastest | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fastest | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fastest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | I | the whole state | fast property | 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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