Test 1 · Rude words at the table
heard a new word on the bus, gonna say it at dinner and see what nan does lol. Good idea?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nan · What happens: hear, say, see, do · To what, where: new word, bus, word, dinner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 of lesson 354 «Rude words at the table» 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: heard a new word on the bus, gonna say it at dinner and see what nan does lol.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 word | det |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 word | amod |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 heard | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 bus | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bus | det |
| 7 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 heard | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 say | punct |
| 9 | gonna | gonna | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 say | dep |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 heard | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 say | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 dinner | case |
| 13 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 say | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 see | cc |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 say | conj |
| 16 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 17 nan | det |
| 17 | nan | nan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 does | nsubj |
| 18 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | ccomp |
| 19 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 18 does | discourse |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 heard | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | a new word | the bus | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | word | dinner | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | do | present | what nan | vn act-114-1 «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: Good idea?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 idea | amod |
| 2 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 idea | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, it may hurt her and spoil dinner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 hurt | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hurt | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurt | aux |
| 5 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hurt | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dinner | cc |
| 8 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dinner | compound |
| 9 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hurt | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | may | it | her = she | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Patient |
Option 2
Yes, nan might laugh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 laugh | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | nan | nan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laugh | nsubj |
| 4 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 laugh | aux |
| 5 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | might | nan | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Only if Mum is out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 out | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 out | mark |
| 3 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 out | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 out | cop |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Mum | out property | tree rules |
Option 4
Yes, nans love new words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 love | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | nans | nan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 love | nsubj |
| 4 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 words | amod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 love | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | nans | new words | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
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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