Test 10 · Rude words at the table
dropped my bag in the rain and swore and a mum glared. What could I say next time?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, I · What happens: drop, swear, glare, say · To what, where: bag, rain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 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: dropped my bag in the rain and swore and a mum glared.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 bag | nmod:poss |
| 3 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 dropped | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 rain | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rain | det |
| 6 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 dropped | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 swore | cc |
| 8 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 dropped | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 glared | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mum | det |
| 11 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 glared | nsubj |
| 12 | glared | glare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 swore | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 dropped | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | my bag | the rain | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme in rain=Destination | ||||
| 2 | swear | past | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | glare | past | a mum | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=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 could I say next time?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | could | I | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A word she won't know
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 4 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 know | advmod |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 word | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | future | she | a word not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
Option 2
The same word again, but said a bit more quietly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 word | amod |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 word | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 word | parataxis |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bit | det |
| 9 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 quietly | advmod |
| 11 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | a bit | quietly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
«Oh no!» or nothing at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 nothing | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 nothing | discourse |
| 3 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 nothing | cc |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 nothing | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A worse word
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 2 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 word | amod |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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