Test 11 · Our street against theirs
Sam: «why do we even fight them?» Kieran: «cos». What's true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we · What happens: fight, be · To what, where: them
This is test 11 of lesson 382 «Our street against theirs» 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: Sam: «why do we even fight them?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sam | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 fight | punct |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 fight | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fight | aux |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 fight | nsubj |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 fight | advmod |
| 8 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Sam | parataxis |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fight | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 fight | punct |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 fight | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight in a quote | present · do-support | we | them = they | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-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: Kieran: «cos».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cos | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 cos | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 cos | punct |
| 4 | cos | cos | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 cos | punct |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cos | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: What's true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Sam should go and fight them to find out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fight | cc |
| 5 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fight | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fight | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 find | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | should | Sam | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fight | infinitive | Sam not said here | them = they | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | find out | to-infinitive | Sam not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Sam is being disloyal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 disloyal | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 disloyal | cop |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 disloyal | cop |
| 4 | disloyal | disloyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Sam | disloyal property | tree rules |
Option 3
«Cos» is a good enough reason
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cos | punct |
| 2 | Cos | Cos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 reason | nsubj |
| 3 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cos | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 reason | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 reason | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 reason | amod |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 reason | amod |
| 8 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Cos | a good enough reason | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
«Cos» isn't a reason; it's worth asking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cos | punct |
| 2 | Cos | Cos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 reason | nsubj |
| 3 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cos | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 reason | cop |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 reason | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 reason | det |
| 7 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 worth | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 worth | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 worth | cop |
| 11 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 reason | conj |
| 12 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 worth | csubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | Cos | a reason | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | it | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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