Test 4 · ★ · Homework first?
«miss, my dog ate it». Jayden actually forgot because of game night. What's the better thing to say?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: miss, Jayden, better thing · What happens: eat, forget, be, say · To what, where: dog · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 419 «Homework first?» 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: «miss, my dog ate it».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 ate | punct |
| 2 | miss | miss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ate | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dog | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dog | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 miss | conj |
| 6 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ate | obj |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 ate | punct |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat in a quote | past | miss and my dog | dog | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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: Jayden actually forgot because of game night.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jayden | Jayden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 forgot | nsubj |
| 2 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 3 forgot | advmod |
| 3 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 7 night | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 because | fixed |
| 6 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 night | compound |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forgot | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forgot | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | Jayden | night | actually property | tree rules |
Sentence 3: What's the better thing to say?
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 thing | det |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 say | mark |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thing | acl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the better thing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | the better thing not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Nothing, hope the teacher forgets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 hope | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 teacher | det |
| 5 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forgets | nsubj |
| 6 | forgets | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hope | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | forget | present | the teacher | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The truth, and offer to do it at lunch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 truth | det |
| 2 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 offer | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 offer | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 offer | cc |
| 5 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 offer | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 do | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 lunch | case |
| 10 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | infinitive | the truth | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the truth not said here | truth | lunch | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
That the homework was never set
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 homework | det |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 homework | det |
| 3 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | aux:pass |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 set | advmod |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not set | past · passive | that homework | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
Option 4
A better excuse about his little brother
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 excuse | det |
| 2 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 excuse | amod |
| 3 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 brother | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 brother | amod |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 excuse | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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