Test 3 · Gift cards and birthday money: making it last
Ollie's mum finds the gift card paper in the recycling. Lesson?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mum · What happens: find · To what, where: card paper, recycling
This is test 3 of lesson 415 «Gift cards and birthday money: making it last» 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: Ollie's mum finds the gift card paper in the recycling.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ollie | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finds | nsubj |
| 4 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 paper | det |
| 6 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 card | compound |
| 7 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 paper | compound |
| 8 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finds | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 recycling | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 recycling | det |
| 11 | recycling | recycling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finds | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 finds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | Ollie's mum | the card paper | the recycling | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=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: Lesson?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lesson | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Paper codes are worthless
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 codes | compound |
| 2 | codes | code | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 worthless | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 worthless | cop |
| 4 | worthless | worthless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Paper codes | worthless property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A code on paper is money on paper, so keep it safe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 code | det |
| 2 | code | code | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 money | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 paper | case |
| 4 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 code | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 money | cop |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 paper | case |
| 8 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 money | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 keep | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 keep | advmod |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 money | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 keep | obj |
| 13 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 keep | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a code on paper | money | paper | tree rules | |||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | a code on paper not said here | code | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3
Recycling bins are safe places for codes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Recycling | recycle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 bins | amod |
| 2 | bins | bin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 places | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 places | cop |
| 4 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 places | amod |
| 5 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 codes | case |
| 7 | codes | code | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 places | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recycle | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Recycling bins | safe places | for codes | tree rules |
Option 4
The shop always prints a new code
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shop | det |
| 2 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prints | nsubj |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 prints | advmod |
| 4 | prints | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root | |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 code | det |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 code | amod |
| 7 | code | code | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prints | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | the shop | a new code | always property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent code=Theme |
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