Test 10 · Respect: how it is earned
Teacher: «Maddie, what got you that medal?» Best answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Maddie · What happens: get · To what, where: medal, you
This is test 10 of lesson 385 «Respect: how it is earned» 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: «Maddie, what got you that medal?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 Maddie | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 Maddie | punct |
| 4 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Teacher | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Maddie | acl:relcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 got | obj |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 medal | det |
| 10 | medal | medal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past | Maddie | that medal | you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary medal=Theme |
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: Best answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 answer | amod |
| 2 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 answer | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Being scarier than the other runners at the start
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 scarier | cop |
| 2 | scarier | scarey | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 3 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 runners | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 runners | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 runners | amod |
| 6 | runners | runner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 scarier | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 start | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 start | det |
| 9 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 runners | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | than the other runners at the start; scarey property | tree rules |
Option 2
Elbowing people at the start
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elbowing | elbow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Elbowing | obj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 start | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 start | det |
| 5 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Elbowing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | elbow | gerund | people | the start | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent people=Patient at start=Location |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Getting up early and training for weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Getting | compound:prt |
| 3 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Getting | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 training | cc |
| 5 | training | training | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Getting | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 weeks | case |
| 7 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Getting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | gerund | week | early property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
Luck, nothing else
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nothing | punct |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 1 Luck | conj |
| 4 | else | else | ADV | _ | 3 nothing | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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