Test 3 · Eyes, backs and thumbs
Priya, rubbing her eyes: «everything's blurry, is my telly broken?» Most likely?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Priya, everything, rubbing · What happens: rub, be, break · To what, where: eyes, telly · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 of lesson 420 «Eyes, backs and thumbs» 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: Priya, rubbing her eyes: «everything's blurry, is my telly broken?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Priya | Priya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rubbing | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Priya | punct |
| 3 | rubbing | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 telly | csubj |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rubbing | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 blurry | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 blurry | punct |
| 8 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 blurry | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 blurry | cop |
| 10 | blurry | blurry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rubbing | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rubbing | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 telly | cop |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 telly | nmod:poss |
| 14 | telly | telly | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 telly | acl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 broken | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 telly | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | gerund | Priya | Priya's eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | everything | blurry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | rubbing | my telly | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | break in a quote | participle | my telly not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: Most likely?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 likely | nsubj |
| 2 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 likely | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
The telly has a broken screen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 telly | det |
| 2 | telly | telly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 screen | det |
| 5 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 screen | amod |
| 6 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the telly | a broken screen | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent screen=Patient | ||||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
She has been blinking too much
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 blinking | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 blinking | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 blinking | aux |
| 4 | blinking | blink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 blinking | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blink | present · perfect · progressive | She | much | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent much=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Her eyes are tired from long staring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tired | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tired | cop |
| 4 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 staring | case |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 staring | amod |
| 7 | staring | staring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tired | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Her eyes | long staring | tired property | tree rules |
Option 4
She needs a much bigger screen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 needs | nsubj |
| 2 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 screen | det |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 bigger | advmod |
| 5 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 screen | amod |
| 6 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 needs | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | She | a bigger screen | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot screen=Theme |
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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