Test 1 · ★ · Accidents told too late

Grandad, squinting: «Who's been sitting on my specs?» What's the kind and honest answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grandad, kind answer · What happens: squint, sit, be · To what, where: specs

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 343 «Accidents told too late» 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: Grandad, squinting: «Who's been sitting on my specs?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 squinting	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 squinting	punct
3	squinting	squint	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 squinting	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 sitting	punct
6	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 sitting	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sitting	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 sitting	aux
9	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 squinting	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 specs	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 specs	nmod:poss
12	specs	spec	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sitting	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 squinting	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 squinting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squint	gerund	Grandad						vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit in a quote	present · progressive				my specs			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on spec=Location

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's the kind and honest answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 answer	det
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 answer	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 honest	cc
6	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kind	conj
7	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the kind answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

«Me, by accident. Sorry, I'll read you the paper»

Sentence 1: «Me, by accident.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Me	punct
2	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 accident	punct
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 accident	case
5	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Me	conj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Me	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 2: Sorry, I'll read you the paper»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sorry	sorry	INTJ	_	5 read	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sorry	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 read	nsubj
4	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 read	aux
5	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 read	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 paper	det
8	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 read	obj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 read	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	future	I	the paper	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient paper=Topic

Option 2

«Maybe the dog»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 dog	punct
2	Maybe	maybe	ADV	_	4 dog	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 dog	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

«You sat on them yourself, Grandad, I saw you do it»

The tree, 11 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	obl
6	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 sat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Grandad	punct
8	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	ccomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 do	obj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit in a quote	past	You	yourself	on them = they; Grandad obl	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on they=Location
2	see in a quote	past	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do in a quote	present	you	it		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

«They were like that»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 that	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 that	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 that	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	root	root
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 that	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	They					like that	tree rules

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