Test 5 · ★ · The broken window and other hidden accidents
Gran gives Mia a cwtch and says «never hide things from me, my lover». What is a cwtch?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gran · What happens: give, say, not hide, be · To what, where: cwtch, Mia, things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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: Gran gives Mia a cwtch and says «never hide things from me, my lover».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gives | nsubj |
| 2 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gives | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cwtch | det |
| 5 | cwtch | cwtch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gives | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 says | cc |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gives | conj |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 hide | punct |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 hide | advmod |
| 10 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | ccomp |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hide | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 things | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lover | punct |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 lover | nmod:poss |
| 16 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 me | conj |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 hide | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gives | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Gran | a cwtch | Mia | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mia=Recipient cwtch=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Gran not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not hide in a quote | present | things | from Gran | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent thing=Patient from i=Beneficiary |
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 is a cwtch?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 cwtch | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cwtch | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cwtch | det |
| 4 | cwtch | cwtch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 cwtch | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a cwtch | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A glue pot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pot | det |
| 2 | glue | glue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pot | compound |
| 3 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A cuddle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cuddle | det |
| 2 | cuddle | cuddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A biscuit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 biscuit | det |
| 2 | biscuit | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A telling-off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 off | det |
| 2 | telling | telling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 off | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 telling | punct |
| 4 | off | off | 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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