Test 9 · Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes»
teacher: «Ollie, where did you even hear that word?» Honest answer?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: hear · To what, where: word
This is test 9 of lesson 406 «Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes»» 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: «Ollie, where did you even hear that word?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ollie | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ollie | punct |
| 4 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 teacher | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hear | punct |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 hear | advmod |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hear | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 hear | nsubj |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 hear | advmod |
| 10 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Ollie | conj |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 word | det |
| 12 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hear | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ollie | punct |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 1 teacher | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | past · do-support | you | that word | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
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: Honest answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 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
«I made it up just now»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 made | compound:prt |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 now | advmod |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 made | advmod |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up in a quote | past | I | it | now | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
«My grandma taught me it when I was little»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 taught | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 grandma | nmod:poss |
| 3 | grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taught | nsubj |
| 4 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 taught | iobj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 taught | obj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 little | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 little | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 little | cop |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 taught | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 taught | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other in a quote | past | My grandma | it | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient it=Topic | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | I | little property | tree rules |
Option 3
«It's not a real word»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 word | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 word | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 word | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 word | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 word | det |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 word | amod |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 word | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | It | a real word | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
«In a game, miss, I didn't know it was that bad»
The tree, 12 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 game | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 game | det |
| 4 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 know | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 miss | punct |
| 6 | miss | miss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 game | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 game | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 know | advmod |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bad | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 bad | cop |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 bad | mark |
| 15 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 know | ccomp |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | past · do-support | I | a game and miss | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | it | bad property | tree rules |
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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