Test 9 · ★ · Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues…
A boy from Ireland visits New York and eats in a diner with his family. His bill is 40 dollars. About how much tip do people there usually add?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, bill · What happens: visit, eat, be, bill, add · To what, where: New York, diner, 40 dollars
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 331 «Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping» 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 boy from Ireland visits New York and eats in a diner with his family.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 visits | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Ireland | case |
| 4 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | visits | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 York | flat |
| 7 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 visits | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 eats | cc |
| 9 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 visits | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 diner | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 diner | det |
| 12 | diner | diner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eats | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 family | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 family | nmod:poss |
| 15 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eats | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 visits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | present | a boy from Ireland | New York | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent york=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | eat | present | a boy from Ireland not said here | a diner | with boy's family | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: His bill is 40 dollars.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 bill | nmod:poss |
| 2 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dollars | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dollars | cop |
| 4 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 dollars | nummod |
| 5 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dollars | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | boy's bill | 40 dollars | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bill | boy | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Sentence 3: About how much tip do people there usually add?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | SCONJ | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 much | advmod |
| 3 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tip | amod |
| 4 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 add | aux |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 do | advmod |
| 8 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 9 add | advmod |
| 9 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 add | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | present · do-support | usually property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
About 6 to 8 dollars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 6 | advmod |
| 2 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 dollars | nummod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 8 | case |
| 4 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 6 | nmod |
| 5 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About 50 cents
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 50 | advmod |
| 2 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 cents | nummod |
| 3 | cents | cent | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Nothing at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Nothing | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About 40 dollars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 40 | advmod |
| 2 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 dollars | nummod |
| 3 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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