Test 2 · Our street against theirs
«Station Road lot are scum, everyone knows». Is that true?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone, that · What happens: be, know · To what, where: lot scum
This is test 2 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: «Station Road lot are scum, everyone knows».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 scum | punct |
| 2 | Station | Station | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Road | compound |
| 3 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lot | compound |
| 4 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scum | compound |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 scum | cop |
| 6 | scum | scum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knows | punct |
| 8 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 knows | nsubj |
| 9 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 scum | acl:relcl |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 knows | punct |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 scum | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | lot scum | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | everyone | lot scum not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer scum=Stimulus |
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: Is that true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 true | nsubj |
| 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 | that | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Only the ones near the shop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 ones | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ones | det |
| 3 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 shop | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shop | det |
| 6 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ones | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Only the older ones who hang round the shop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 ones | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ones | det |
| 3 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 ones | amod |
| 4 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 hang | nsubj |
| 6 | hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ones | acl:relcl |
| 7 | round | round | ADP | _ | 9 shop | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shop | det |
| 9 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hang | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | present | the older ones | the shop | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round shop=Destination |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, everyone says so, so it must be true
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 says | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 says | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 true | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 true | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 true | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 true | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 true | cop |
| 11 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 says | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | everyone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | must | it | true property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
No, people aren't bad because of their street
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 bad | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bad | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bad | cop |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 bad | advmod |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 10 street | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 because | fixed |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 street | nmod:poss |
| 10 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bad | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | people | because people's street; bad property | tree rules |
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