Test 9 · Our street against theirs
Teacher: «Can anyone tell me why your streets are fighting?» Long silence. What does that show?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Teacher, streets, that · What happens: tell, fight, show · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 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: Teacher: «Can anyone tell me why your streets are fighting?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 tell | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 tell | punct |
| 4 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 tell | aux |
| 5 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 tell | nsubj |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 tell | iobj |
| 8 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 fighting | advmod |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 streets | nmod:poss |
| 10 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fighting | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fighting | aux |
| 12 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 tell | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 tell | punct |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | can | Teacher | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | fight in a quote | present · progressive | your streets | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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: Long silence.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 silence | amod |
| 2 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 silence | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: What does that show?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 show | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | aux |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 show | nsubj |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · do-support | that | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Nobody has a real reason
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 reason | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reason | amod |
| 5 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Nobody | a real reason | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient |
Option 2
The other street started it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 street | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 street | amod |
| 3 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 started | nsubj |
| 4 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 started | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | the other street | it | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 3
The teacher should already know
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | should | the teacher | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
It's a secret only big kids know
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 secret | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 secret | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 secret | det |
| 4 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 big | advmod |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kids | amod |
| 7 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 know | nsubj |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 secret | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a secret | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | present | big kids | a secret not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus |
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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