Test 4 · ★ · The older kid's «trade»
Cousin: «Ach, it glitched, money's gone.» What's the best question?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cousin, best question · What happens: glitch, be
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 445 «The older kid's «trade»» 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: Cousin: «Ach, it glitched, money's gone.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cousin | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 glitched | punct |
| 4 | Ach | ach | INTJ | _ | 7 glitched | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 glitched | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 glitched | nsubj |
| 7 | glitched | glitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Cousin | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cousin | punct |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gone | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 gone | cop |
| 11 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gone | punct |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 gone | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glitch in a quote | past | Cousin | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Cousin | gone property | 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's the best question?
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 | 5 question | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 question | amod |
| 5 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the best question | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Which glitch was it, exactly?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 glitch | det |
| 2 | glitch | glitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 it | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 glitch | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 glitch | punct |
| 6 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 2 glitch | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 glitch | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | glitch | tree rules |
Option 2
Is the internet broken?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 internet | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 internet | det |
| 3 | internet | internet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broken | csubj |
| 4 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 broken | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the internet | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Can I see the receipt?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 receipt | det |
| 5 | receipt | receipt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | can | I | the receipt | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer receipt=Stimulus |
Option 4
Can you glitch it back?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 glitch | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 glitch | nsubj |
| 3 | glitch | glitch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 glitch | obj |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 glitch | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 glitch | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glitch back | can | you | it | tree rules |
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