Test 3 · ★ · The broken window and other hidden accidents
«it's the update, phone's been weird all day». What will a repair shop find?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: it, phone, repair shop · What happens: be, find · To what, where: update
This is test 3 · ★ 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: «it's the update, phone's been weird all day».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 update | punct |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 update | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 update | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 update | det |
| 5 | update | update | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 weird | punct |
| 7 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 weird | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 weird | cop |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 weird | cop |
| 10 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 update | parataxis |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 weird | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 weird | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 update | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | it | the update | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | phone | day | weird 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: What will a repair shop find?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 find | obj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 find | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shop | det |
| 4 | repair | repair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shop | compound |
| 5 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | nsubj |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | future | a repair shop | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Water damage from the bath
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 damage | compound |
| 2 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 bath | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bath | det |
| 5 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 damage | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nothing wrong at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Nothing | amod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 wrong | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A bad update that broke the phone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 update | det |
| 2 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 update | amod |
| 3 | update | update | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 broke | nsubj |
| 5 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 update | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 phone | det |
| 7 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broke | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | a bad update | the phone | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer phone=Patient |
Option 4
A broken hair dryer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dryer | det |
| 2 | broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dryer | amod |
| 3 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dryer | compound |
| 4 | dryer | dryer | 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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