Test 2 · ★★ · Politicians and promises, as the news reports them
Belfast neighbour: «Wise up, he's the only honest one.» What does «wise up» mean?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: wise up, be, mean · To what, where: only honest one
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 442 «Politicians and promises, as the news reports them» 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: Belfast neighbour: «Wise up, he's the only honest one.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Belfast | belfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 neighbour | compound |
| 2 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Wise | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 Wise | punct |
| 5 | Wise | wise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 neighbour | parataxis |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 Wise | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 one | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 one | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 11 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | amod |
| 12 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | amod |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Wise | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 neighbour | punct |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 neighbour | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wise up in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | he | the only honest one | 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 does «wise up» mean?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 wise | obl |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wise | aux |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 wise | punct |
| 4 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 wise | compound:prt |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 up | punct |
| 7 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wise | parataxis |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 wise | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | infinitive | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Stand up straight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Stand | compound:prt |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 1 Stand | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | imperative | you not said here | straight property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Get cleverer at school
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | cleverer | clever | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Get | xcomp |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 school | case |
| 4 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Get | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | imperative | you not said here | school | clever property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Stop being silly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 silly | cop |
| 3 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Stop | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | imperative | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | you not said here | silly property | tree rules |
Option 4
Go off to sleep now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 Go | compound:prt |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 sleep | mark |
| 4 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Go | advcl |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sleep | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | imperative | you not said here | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | you not said here | now | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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