Test 4 · ★ · «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework
Ella's teacher to Mum: «Hope the family thing went well!» Why is this the end of Ella's story?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, family thing, this · What happens: hope, go, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 426 ««The dog ate it»: excuses for homework» 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: Ella's teacher to Mum: «Hope the family thing went well!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ella | case |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Hope | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Mum | case |
| 5 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 teacher | nmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hope | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hope | punct |
| 8 | Hope | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 thing | det |
| 10 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thing | compound |
| 11 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Hope | ccomp |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hope | punct |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hope | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope in a quote | infinitive | Ella's teacher to Mum | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | past | the family thing | well property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: Why is this the end of Ella's story?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Why | cop |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Why | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 end | det |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Why | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 story | case |
| 7 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 story | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Ella | case |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this | why property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
The teacher is being rude to Mum
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rude | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rude | cop |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 rude | cop |
| 5 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Mum | case |
| 7 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rude | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the teacher | to Mum; rude property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Mum knows there was no family thing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knows | nsubj |
| 2 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knows | ccomp |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 thing | det |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thing | compound |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Mum | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be | past | no family thing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
The family thing was cancelled
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thing | compound |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cancelled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cancelled | aux:pass |
| 5 | cancelled | cancel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cancel | past · passive | the family thing | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Mum will say it went well, to help Ella out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 say | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | aux |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | ccomp |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 help | punct |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 help | mark |
| 9 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 say | conj |
| 10 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 help | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 help | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | future | Mum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go | past | it | well property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | help out | to-infinitive | Mum not said here | Ella | out property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ella=Beneficiary |
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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