Test 9 · Adults who help and adults who don't
Kieran's gran shrugs again. Who else could Kieran tell?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gran · What happens: shrug, tell · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 of lesson 392 «Adults who help and adults who don't» 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: Kieran's gran shrugs again.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gran | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Kieran | case |
| 3 | gran | gran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shrugs | nsubj |
| 4 | shrugs | shrug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 shrugs | advmod |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shrugs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shrug | present | Kieran's gran | again | vn wink-40.3.1 «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: Who else could Kieran tell?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | else | else | ADV | _ | 1 Who | advmod |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | aux |
| 4 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | could | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Only Jake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 Jake | advmod |
| 2 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nobody, Gran is the only one who ever listens
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 one | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nobody | punct |
| 3 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 one | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 6 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 listens | nsubj |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 listens | advmod |
| 10 | listens | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Nobody | the only one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | listen | present | the only one | ever | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
The Station Road boys
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boys | det |
| 2 | Station | Station | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Road | compound |
| 3 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 boys | compound |
| 4 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A teacher, Mr Pryce or the community officer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Pryce | punct |
| 4 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Pryce | flat |
| 5 | Pryce | Pryce | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 teacher | appos |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 officer | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 officer | det |
| 8 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 officer | compound |
| 9 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Pryce | conj |
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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