Test 2 · Sleep and school mornings
Mum: «why are you so snappy this morning?» Ollie: «dunno». What's the likely reason?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, likely reason · What happens: be
This is test 2 of lesson 418 «Sleep and school mornings» 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: Mum: «why are you so snappy this morning?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 snappy | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 snappy | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 snappy | punct |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 snappy | advmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 snappy | cop |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 snappy | nsubj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 snappy | advmod |
| 8 | snappy | snappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 morning | det |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 snappy | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 snappy | punct |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 snappy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Mum | morning | snappy property | 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: Ollie: «dunno».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 dunno | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 dunno | punct |
| 4 | dunno | dunno | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ollie | appos |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 dunno | punct |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ollie | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: What's the likely reason?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 reason | det |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reason | amod |
| 5 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the likely reason | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Mornings make everyone angry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mornings | morning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | nsubj |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 make | obj |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Mornings | everyone | angry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everyone=Product |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
He played late and is tired
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 played | nsubj |
| 2 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 played | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tired | cc |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tired | cop |
| 6 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 played | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | He | late property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | He not said here | tired property | tree rules |
Option 3
He ate far too much sugary cereal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ate | nsubj |
| 2 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 ate | advmod |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cereal | amod |
| 6 | sugary | sugary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cereal | amod |
| 7 | cereal | cereal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ate | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | He | much sugary cereal | far property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cereal=Patient |
Option 4
His sister is always annoying
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 annoying | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 annoying | cop |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 annoying | advmod |
| 5 | annoying | annoying | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | His sister | always, annoying 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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