Test 19 · Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast
Lily brought cold pasta for breakfast and some girls are saying it's weird and gross, should i join in
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lily, girls, pasta, i · What happens: bring, say, be, join in · To what, where: cold pasta · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 19 of lesson 38 «Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast» 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pasta | amod |
| 4 | pasta | pasta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 breakfast | case |
| 6 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saying | cc |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 girls | det |
| 9 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 saying | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 saying | aux |
| 11 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 brought | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 weird | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 weird | cop |
| 14 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 saying | ccomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gross | cc |
| 16 | gross | gross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 weird | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 join | punct |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 join | aux |
| 19 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 join | nsubj |
| 20 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 brought | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 join | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | Lily | cold pasta | for breakfast | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pasta=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present · progressive | some girls | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | pasta | weird property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | pasta not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | join in | should | i | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, so she brings cereal next time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 brings | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 brings | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brings | nsubj |
| 5 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | cereal | cereal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brings | obj |
| 7 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brings | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | she | cereal | time | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cereal=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, people eat different breakfasts and laughing at hers is unkind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 eat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 breakfasts | amod |
| 6 | breakfasts | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eat | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 unkind | cc |
| 8 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 unkind | csubj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 hers | case |
| 10 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 laughing | obl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 unkind | cop |
| 12 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eat | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | people | different breakfasts | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient | ||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | at hers = she | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | laughing | unkind property | tree rules |
Option 3
Yes, but only behind her back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 back | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 back | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 back | advmod |
| 5 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 7 back | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 back | nmod:poss |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yes, because pasta is not breakfast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 breakfast | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 breakfast | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 breakfast | mark |
| 4 | pasta | pasta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 breakfast | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 breakfast | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 breakfast | advmod |
| 7 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | pasta | breakfast | 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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