Test 1 · Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van
Jacob, 8, in Leeds: «she lied about the van for YEARS». He's well mardy. How is he feeling?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jacob, Leeds · What happens: lie, feel
This is test 1 of lesson 443 «Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van» 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: Jacob, 8, in Leeds: «she lied about the van for YEARS».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lied | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 8 | punct |
| 3 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Jacob | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Leeds | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Leeds | case |
| 6 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Jacob | appos |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Leeds | punct |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 lied | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lied | nsubj |
| 10 | lied | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 van | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 van | det |
| 13 | van | van | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lied | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 YEARS | case |
| 15 | YEARS | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lied | obl |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 lied | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lied | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie in a quote | past | Jacob | year | about the van | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about van=Location |
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: He's well mardy.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mardy | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mardy | aux |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 mardy | advmod |
| 4 | mardy | mardy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mardy | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: How is he feeling?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 feeling | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 feeling | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 feeling | nsubj |
| 4 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 feeling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present · progressive | Leeds | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Scared and shaking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 shaking | cc |
| 3 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Scared | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | gerund | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
Sleepy and calm now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 calm | cc |
| 3 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Sleepy | conj |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Sleepy | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Sulky and cross
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sulky | sulky | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 cross | cc |
| 3 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sulky | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Excited and happy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 happy | cc |
| 3 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Excited | conj |
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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