Test 2 · ★ · Copying and peeking in tests
Teacher: «Interesting. You and Josh made the exact same mistake in question 4.» What should Max say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, Max · What happens: make, say · To what, where: exact same mistake, question · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 340 «Copying and peeking in tests» 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: Teacher: «Interesting.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 Interesting | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 Interesting | punct |
| 4 | Interesting | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Teacher | conj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Teacher | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: You and Josh made the exact same mistake in question 4.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Josh | cc |
| 3 | Josh | Josh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 You | conj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mistake | det |
| 6 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mistake | amod |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mistake | amod |
| 8 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 question | case |
| 10 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mistake | nmod |
| 11 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 question | flat |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | You | the exact same mistake | question | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product |
Sentence 3: What should Max say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | Max | Max | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | should | Max | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It's a coincidence, miss
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 coincidence | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 coincidence | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 coincidence | det |
| 4 | coincidence | coincidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 miss | punct |
| 6 | miss | miss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coincidence | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a coincidence and miss | tree rules |
Option 2
The question was wrong
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 question | det |
| 2 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrong | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrong | cop |
| 4 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the question | wrong property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
It was me who copied, not Josh's fault
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 | 3 me | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 me | cop |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 copied | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 copied | nsubj |
| 5 | copied | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fault | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 fault | advmod |
| 8 | Josh | Josh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fault | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Josh | case |
| 10 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 copied | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | copy | past | me | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fault | Josh | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
Josh copied me, miss, not the other way
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Josh | Josh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 copied | nsubj |
| 2 | copied | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 copied | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 miss | punct |
| 5 | miss | miss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 copied | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 way | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 way | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 way | amod |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 copied | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | past | Josh | me | miss obl | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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