Test 8 · ★ · «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other
Little sister: «Noah hit me!» — every day, never true. Which story is this like?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Noah · What happens: hit · To what, where: me
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 432 ««It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other» 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: Little sister: «Noah hit me!» — every day, never true.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sister | amod |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 sister | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 hit | punct |
| 5 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hit | nsubj |
| 6 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sister | parataxis |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 hit | obj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 hit | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 hit | punct |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 day | punct |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sister | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 true | punct |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 true | advmod |
| 15 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sister | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sister | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit in a quote | past | Noah | me | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-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: Which story is this like?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | cop |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 like | nsubj |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 2 story | nmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 story | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Jack and the beanstalk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 beanstalk | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beanstalk | det |
| 4 | beanstalk | beanstalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jack | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The boy who cried wolf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 boy | acl:relcl |
| 5 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the boy | wolf | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic |
Option 3
The tortoise and the hare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tortoise | det |
| 2 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hare | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hare | det |
| 5 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tortoise | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Goldilocks and the three bears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goldilocks | Goldilocks | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bears | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bears | det |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 bears | nummod |
| 5 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Goldilocks | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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