Test 10 · ★★ · Boasting cousins and made-up holidays
Molly sulked about her presents, then played the jigsaw. It was canny. How was it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Molly, jigsaw · What happens: sulk, play, be · To what, where: jigsaw
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 435 «Boasting cousins and made-up holidays» 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: Molly sulked about her presents, then played the jigsaw.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sulked | nsubj |
| 2 | sulked | sulk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 presents | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 presents | nmod:poss |
| 5 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sulked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 played | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 played | advmod |
| 8 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sulked | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 jigsaw | det |
| 10 | jigsaw | jigsaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 played | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sulked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sulk | past | Molly | about Molly's presents | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | play | past | Molly not said here | the jigsaw | then | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jigsaw=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: It was canny.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 canny | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 canny | cop |
| 3 | canny | canny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 canny | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | jigsaw | canny property | tree rules |
Sentence 3: How was it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 How | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 How | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 How | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | jigsaw | how property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Too hard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 2 hard | advmod |
| 2 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Boring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boring | boring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Nice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Scary
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 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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