Test 8 · ★★★ · Snooping on phones, diaries and letters
«just read the last page, it's quicker». What do you lose?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: page, you · What happens: read, be, lose · To what, where: last page
This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 357 «Snooping on phones, diaries and letters» 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: «just read the last page, it's quicker».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 read | punct |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 read | advmod |
| 3 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 page | det |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 page | amod |
| 6 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 read | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 quicker | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 quicker | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 quicker | cop |
| 10 | quicker | quick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 read | conj |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 quicker | punct |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 read | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read in a quote | past | the last page | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent page=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | page | quick property | tree rules |
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 do you lose?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 lose | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lose | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 lose | nsubj |
| 4 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 lose | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present · do-support | you | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The first page
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 page | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 page | amod |
| 3 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nothing at all, the ending is the same
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 ending | compound |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Nothing | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ending | det |
| 6 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 same | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 same | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 same | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Nothing ending | same property | tree rules |
Option 3
The book's cover
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 book | det |
| 2 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cover | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 book | case |
| 4 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The fun of waiting to find out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fun | det |
| 2 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 4 waiting | mark |
| 4 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 fun | acl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 find | mark |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 waiting | advcl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 find | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | the fun not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find out | to-infinitive | the fun not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
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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