Test 3 · Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi
Theo: «just unplug it again, 41st time lucky». Better idea?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Theo · What happens: unplug · To what, where: it
This is test 3 of lesson 409 «Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi» 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: Theo: «just unplug it again, 41st time lucky».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Theo | Theo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 unplug | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 unplug | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 unplug | punct |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 unplug | advmod |
| 5 | unplug | unplug | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 unplug | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 unplug | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lucky | punct |
| 9 | 41st | 41st | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 time | compound |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lucky | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 unplug | conj |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 lucky | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unplug | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unplug in a quote | infinitive | Theo | it | again | 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: Better idea?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 idea | amod |
| 2 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 idea | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Unplug it faster this time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unplug | unplug | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Unplug | obj |
| 3 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Unplug | advmod |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Unplug | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unplug | imperative | you not said here | it | time | fast property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Stop and ask a grown-up to check it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 ask | cc |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stop | conj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 up | det |
| 5 | grown | grown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 up | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 up | punct |
| 7 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ask | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 check | mark |
| 9 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ask | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 check | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | imperative | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | a grown up | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | check | to-infinitive | you not said here | up | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3
Shake the router hard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 router | det |
| 3 | router | router | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shake | obj |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Shake | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | imperative | you not said here | the router | hard property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent router=Patient |
Option 4
Unplug the neighbour's too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unplug | unplug | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 neighbour | det |
| 3 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Unplug | obj |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 neighbour | case |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 1 Unplug | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unplug | imperative | you not said here | the neighbour | 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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