Test 8 · ★★ · Left out without a console
Ruby only gets Saturdays. The group plans the big boss battle for Wednesday. Better plan?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ruby, group · What happens: get, plan · To what, where: big boss battle
This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 399 «Left out without a console» 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: Ruby only gets Saturdays.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 gets | advmod |
| 3 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Saturdays | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 gets | obj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Ruby | saturday | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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: The group plans the big boss battle for Wednesday.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 group | det |
| 2 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plans | nsubj |
| 3 | plans | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 battle | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 battle | amod |
| 6 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 battle | compound |
| 7 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plans | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 Wednesday | case |
| 9 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 battle | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 plans | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plan | present | the group | the big boss battle | for Wednesday | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Topic |
Sentence 3: Better plan?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 plan | amod |
| 2 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 plan | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Do it Wednesday, Ruby can just watch a video of it after
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 watch | parataxis |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Do | obj |
| 3 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 watch | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ruby | punct |
| 5 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wednesday | conj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 watch | aux |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 watch | advmod |
| 8 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 after | fixed |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 video | det |
| 10 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 watch | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 video | nmod |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | infinitive | it | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | watch | can | Wednesday and Ruby | a video of video | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent video=Theme |
Option 2
Cancel all battles forever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cancel | cancel | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 battles | det |
| 3 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cancel | obj |
| 4 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 1 Cancel | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cancel | imperative | you not said here | all battles | forever property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Do the big battle on Saturday when Ruby's there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 battle | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 battle | amod |
| 4 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Do | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Saturday | case |
| 6 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 battle | nmod |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 there | advmod |
| 8 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 there | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Ruby | case |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Do | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | the big battle | there | on Saturday | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality |
Option 4
Let Ruby do it alone later
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 do | obj |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 do | advmod |
| 6 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 do | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | Ruby | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | Ruby not said here | it | alone, late property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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