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Test 10 · ★★★ · Too many details, too few

A teacher says: «The detailed story is the true one, always.» A sharp kid would say what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, detailed story, sharp kid · What happens: say, be · To what, where: true one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 450 «Too many details, too few» 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: A teacher says: «The detailed story is the true one, always.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
7	detailed	detailed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 story	amod
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 one	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 one	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 one	det
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 always	punct
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 one	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a teacher						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	the detailed story	the true one				always 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: A sharp kid would say what?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kid	det
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kid	amod
3	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	a sharp kid						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Details don't matter at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 matter	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 matter	advmod
4	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 matter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	Details			all			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

No, details always mean lies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 mean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mean	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 mean	advmod
5	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	details	lies				always property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It depends — scripts can be neat, real stories messy

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 depends	nsubj
2	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	—	-	PUNCT	_	7 neat	punct
4	scripts	script	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 neat	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 neat	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 neat	cop
7	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 depends	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stories	punct
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stories	amod
10	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 neat	conj
11	messy	messy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 neat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	depend	present	It						vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is	can	scripts					neat property	tree rules
3	be		scripts not said here						tree rules

Option 4

Yes, details always mean truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 mean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mean	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 mean	advmod
5	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	details	truth				always property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Topic

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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