Test 2 · Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van
Dad: «I'm knackered, love, playground's closed.» What's the most likely truth?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, likely truth · What happens: be, close · To what, where: playground
This is test 2 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: Dad: «I'm knackered, love, playground's closed.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 knackered | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 knackered | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 knackered | nsubj |
| 5 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 knackered | cop |
| 6 | knackered | knackered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Dad | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 love | punct |
| 8 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knackered | vocative |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 closed | punct |
| 10 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 closed | aux:pass |
| 12 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 knackered | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dad | punct |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dad | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | I | love vocative; knackered property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | close in a quote | present · passive | playground | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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's the most likely truth?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 truth | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 likely | advmod |
| 5 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 truth | amod |
| 6 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the likely truth | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Dad is tired and doesn't want to go
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tired | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tired | cop |
| 3 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 want | cc |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 want | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 want | advmod |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tired | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 want | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Dad | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not want | present · do-support | Dad not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Dad not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Dad doesn't know where it is
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 know | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 where | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 where | cop |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | Dad | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | it | where property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
It's against the law on Sundays
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 | 5 law | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 law | cop |
| 3 | against | against | ADP | _ | 5 law | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 law | det |
| 5 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Sundays | case |
| 7 | Sundays | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 law | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | sunday | against the law | tree rules |
Option 4
The playground has been knocked down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 playground | det |
| 2 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knocked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 knocked | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 knocked | aux:pass |
| 5 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 knocked | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock down | present · perfect · passive | the playground | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient |
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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