Test 2 · ★ · The broken window and other hidden accidents
Chloe: «Yinz didn't see anything, right?» Who is she talking to?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Chloe · What happens: not see, talk · To what, where: anything
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 428 «The broken window and other hidden accidents» 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: Chloe: «Yinz didn't see anything, right?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chloe | Chloe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 see | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Chloe | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 4 | Yinz | Yinz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 see | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 see | advmod |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 10 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 7 see | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see in a quote | past · do-support | Chloe | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
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: Who is she talking to?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 talking | obl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 talking | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 talking | nsubj |
| 4 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 talking | fixed |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 talking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | present · progressive | Chloe | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Her mum, who is on the phone in the kitchen
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 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 phone | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 phone | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 phone | cop |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 phone | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 phone | det |
| 8 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mum | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 kitchen | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 kitchen | det |
| 11 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 phone | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Her mum and the phone | the phone | in the kitchen | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Her brother — «yinz» means «you all»
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 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 3 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 yinz | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 yinz | punct |
| 5 | yinz | yinz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brother | appos |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 yinz | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 you | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 means | obj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 you | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Her brother | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |
Option 3
A teacher
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Her cat
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 cat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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