Test 4 · ★★ · Promises to friends and to yourself
piano teacher: «Did you practise this week?» You didn't. What's honest?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: practise, not do, be · To what, where: piano teacher
This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 359 «Promises to friends and to yourself» 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: piano teacher: «Did you practise this week?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | piano | piano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 teacher | compound |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 practise | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 practise | punct |
| 5 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 practise | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 practise | nsubj |
| 7 | practise | practise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 teacher | acl:relcl |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 week | det |
| 9 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 practise | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 practise | punct |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 practise | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | practise in a quote | past · do-support | you | piano teacher not said here | week | 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: You didn't.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 did | advmod |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | You | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: What's honest?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 honest | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 honest | cop |
| 3 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 honest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | honest property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
«My cat kept sitting on the keys»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 cat | nmod:poss |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 kept | xcomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 keys | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 keys | det |
| 8 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sitting | obl |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | past | My cat | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sit in a quote | gerund | My cat not said here | the keys | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on key=Location |
Option 2
«Yes, every day»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 day | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
«No, not much. I'll do better»
Sentence 1: «No, not much.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 much | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 much | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 much | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 much | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: I'll do better»
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 do | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | aux |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 do | advmod |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | I | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
«The piano was broken»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 broken | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 piano | det |
| 3 | piano | piano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 broken | aux:pass |
| 5 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 broken | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break in a quote | past · passive | the piano | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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