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Test 2 · ★ · Stories that change

Mate in Sydney: «saw a shark — nah, a dolphin — well, a big fish thingy». Most likely?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: see · To what, where: shark

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 449 «Stories that change» 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: Mate in Sydney: «saw a shark — nah, a dolphin — well, a big fish thingy».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Sydney	case
3	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shark	det
8	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obj
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	13 dolphin	punct
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	13 dolphin	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dolphin	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 dolphin	det
13	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obl
14	—	-	PUNCT	_	20 thingy	punct
15	well	well	INTJ	_	20 thingy	discourse
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 well	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 thingy	det
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 thingy	amod
19	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thingy	compound
20	thingy	thingy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dolphin	appos
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 thingy	punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	past	Mate in Sydney	a shark				a dolphin obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shark=Stimulus

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: Most likely?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 likely	nsubj
2	likely	likely	ADV	_	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 likely	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

Sharks look just like dolphins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 look	nsubj
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 dolphins	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 dolphins	case
5	dolphins	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	Sharks					like dolphins	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He's telling a careful lie

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	3 telling	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 telling	aux
3	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lie	det
5	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lie	amod
6	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 telling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	He	a careful lie					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient

Option 3

It changed into a dolphin underwater

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	2 changed	nsubj
2	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 underwater	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 underwater	det
5	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 underwater	compound
6	underwater	underwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	It					into a dolphin underwater result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into underwater=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He's not sure what he saw

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 sure	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sure	advmod
4	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 saw	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	He					sure property	tree rules
2	see	past	he						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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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