Test 4 · ★★★ · What everyone learned about fights
Jake writes «fights are short, what comes after is long». What does he mean?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jake, fights · What happens: write, be, come, mean · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 395 «What everyone learned about fights» 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: Jake writes «fights are short, what comes after is long».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 writes | nsubj |
| 2 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 short | punct |
| 4 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 short | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 short | cop |
| 6 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 writes | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 comes | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 comes | nsubj |
| 9 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 short | parataxis |
| 10 | after | after | ADV | _ | 12 long | advmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 long | cop |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 comes | obl |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 long | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 writes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present | Jake | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | fights | short property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | after, long property | 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: What does he mean?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 mean | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | Jake | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Fights should be longer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 longer | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 longer | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 longer | cop |
| 4 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should | Fights | long property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Bruises, punishments and lost trust last much longer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bruises | bruise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 last | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 punishments | punct |
| 3 | punishments | punishment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Bruises | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 trust | cc |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 trust | amod |
| 6 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bruises | conj |
| 7 | last | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 longer | advmod |
| 9 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 last | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | last | present | Bruises and punishments and lost trust | long property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Fights take ages to plan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 take | nsubj |
| 2 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 take | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 plan | mark |
| 5 | plan | plan | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 take | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Fights | ages | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme | ||||
| 2 | plan | to-infinitive | Fights not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
After a fight you always get a long break to calm down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 fight | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fight | det |
| 3 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 get | advmod |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 break | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 break | amod |
| 9 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 calm | mark |
| 11 | calm | calm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 get | advcl |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 calm | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | you | a long break | after a fight | always property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer break=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | calm down | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/395-what-everyone-learned/t4/