Test 5 · ★★★ · What the numbers on the box mean
A boy in America reads «M» on a game. What age does that mean, about?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, age · What happens: read, mean · To what, where: M, game
This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 400 «What the numbers on the box mean» 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: A boy in America reads «M» on a game.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reads | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 America | case |
| 4 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 M | punct |
| 7 | M | M | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reads | obj |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 M | punct |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 game | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 game | det |
| 11 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reads | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reads | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present | a boy in America | M | a game | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent m=Topic |
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 age does that mean, about?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 age | det |
| 2 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | aux |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 5 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 about | punct |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 mean | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | what age | about property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
17 and up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 up | cc |
| 3 | up | up | ADV | _ | 1 17 | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Twelve and up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 up | cc |
| 3 | up | up | ADV | _ | 1 Twelve | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Seven and up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 up | cc |
| 3 | up | up | ADV | _ | 1 Seven | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Any age at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 age | det |
| 2 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 age | nmod |
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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