Test 10 · ★ · When the police come
«999 is only for fires innit». Correct?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: 999 · What happens: be
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 384 «When the police come» 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: «999 is only for fires innit».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 innit | punct |
| 2 | 999 | 999 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 innit | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 innit | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 innit | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 innit | case |
| 6 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 innit | compound |
| 7 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 innit | punct |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 innit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | 999 | for fires innit | tree rules |
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: Correct?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Correct | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, it's for police, ambulance, fire and coastguard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 police | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 police | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 police | cop |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 police | case |
| 6 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ambulance | punct |
| 8 | ambulance | ambulance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 police | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fire | punct |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 police | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 coastguard | cc |
| 12 | coastguard | coastguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fire | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | for police and ambulance and fire and coastguard | tree rules |
Option 2
Yes, it's only for fires and nothing else
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 fires | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fires | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fires | cop |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 fires | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 fires | case |
| 7 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 nothing | cc |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 fires | conj |
| 10 | else | else | ADV | _ | 9 nothing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | for fires | tree rules |
Option 3
Only for robberies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 robberies | advmod |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 robberies | case |
| 3 | robberies | robbery | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Only if an adult rings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 rings | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 rings | mark |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 adult | det |
| 4 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rings | nsubj |
| 5 | rings | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | present | a adult | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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