Test 5 · Peeking at presents and secrets
Dad: «Who opened my letter?» It was you. Best reply?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad, my, letter · What happens: open, letter, be · To what, where: letter, you
This is test 5 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: Dad: «Who opened my letter?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dad | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 opened | punct |
| 4 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 opened | nsubj |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 letter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 opened | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 opened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open in a quote | past | Dad | my letter | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location letter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | letter in a quote | my | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=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: It was you.
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 you | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 you | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 you | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | letter | you | tree rules |
Sentence 3: Best reply?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 reply | amod |
| 2 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 reply | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
«The dog did it»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | obj |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past | the dog | it | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
«Me, sorry. I was worried what it was»
Sentence 1: «Me, sorry.
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 | _ | 2 Me | punct |
| 4 | sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | 2 Me | discourse |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Me | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: I was worried what it was»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 worried | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 worried | cop |
| 3 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 worried | ccomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 what | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | cop |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 worried | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | worried property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | it | tree rules |
Option 3
«It must have come open by itself in the post»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 come | aux |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 come | xcomp |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 itself | case |
| 8 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 come | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 post | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 post | det |
| 11 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | must · perfect | It | the post | by itself = it; open property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by itself=Location |
Option 4
«It was already open»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 open | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 open | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 open | cop |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 5 open | advmod |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 open | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | It | open property | tree rules |
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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