Test 4 · Peeking at presents and secrets
«teacher left the answers on her desk, I'm gonna have a quick look». What's right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, I · What happens: leave, have, be · To what, where: answers, desk, quick look
This is test 4 of lesson 356 «Peeking at presents and secrets» 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 left the answers on her desk, I'm gonna have a quick look».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 answers | det |
| 5 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 desk | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 desk | nmod:poss |
| 8 | desk | desk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answers | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 11 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 12 | gonna | gonna | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 have | dep |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 left | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 look | det |
| 15 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 look | amod |
| 16 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave in a quote | past | teacher | the answers | teacher's desk | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent answer=Theme on desk=Location | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | I | a quick look | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient |
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 right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Don't look, that's cheating
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 look | advmod |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cheating | punct |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 cheating | det |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cheating | cop |
| 7 | cheating | cheating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | that cheating | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Look and share it with your friends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 share | cc |
| 3 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | conj |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 share | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 friends | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 friends | nmod:poss |
| 7 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 share | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | share | infinitive | you not said here | it | with your friends | tree rules |
Option 3
Look, but don't write any of the answers down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 write | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 write | cc |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 write | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 write | advmod |
| 6 | write | write | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | conj |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 write | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 answers | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 answers | det |
| 10 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 any | nmod |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 write | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not write | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | any | down property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme |
Option 4
Only look at the really hard ones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 look | advmod |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 ones | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ones | det |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 hard | advmod |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ones | amod |
| 7 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 look | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | at the hard ones | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at one=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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