Test 2 · ★★ · Getting help is not telling tales
«Miss, Freddie took 2 grapes not 1!!» Tales or getting help?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Miss, Tales · What happens: take, get · To what, where: 2 grapes, help
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 369 «Getting help is not telling tales» 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: «Miss, Freddie took 2 grapes not 1!!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
| 2 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Freddie | punct |
| 4 | Freddie | Freddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Miss | conj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 grapes | nummod |
| 7 | grapes | grape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 1 | advmod |
| 9 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 took | obl |
| 10 | !! | !! | PUNCT | _ | 9 1 | punct |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | past | Miss and Freddie | 2 grapes | 1 obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grape=Theme |
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: Tales or getting help?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 getting | nsubj |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 getting | cc |
| 3 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 getting | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 getting | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | gerund | Tales | help | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1
Getting help, it's a real emergency
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 emergency | csubj |
| 2 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Getting | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Getting | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 emergency | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 emergency | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 emergency | det |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 emergency | amod |
| 8 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | gerund | help | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | a real emergency | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Telling tales, it's a tiny thing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 thing | csubj |
| 2 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Telling | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Telling | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thing | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 thing | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 7 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thing | amod |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | tales | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | a tiny thing | tree rules |
Option 3
Getting help, because grapes matter most
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 2 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Getting | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 matter | punct |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 matter | mark |
| 5 | grapes | grape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 matter | nsubj |
| 6 | matter | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Getting | advcl |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 matter | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | gerund | help | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | matter | present | grapes | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4
Neither, because it's a serious crime
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 8 crime | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 crime | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 crime | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 crime | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 crime | det |
| 7 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 crime | amod |
| 8 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a serious crime | neither 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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