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Test 2 · ★★★ · Too many details, too few

Mate in Glasgow: «met the King, like, the cakes were mint, the hats were mad». Ask what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, cakes, hats, you · What happens: meet, be, ask · To what, where: King, mint

This is test 2 · ★★★ 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: Mate in Glasgow: «met the King, like, the cakes were mint, the hats were mad».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 met	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Glasgow	case
3	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 met	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 met	punct
6	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 met	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mint	punct
10	like	like	INTJ	_	15 mint	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cakes	det
13	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 mint	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 mint	cop
15	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 King	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mad	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hats	det
18	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 mad	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 mad	cop
20	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 met	obl
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 mad	punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 met	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet in a quote	past	Mate in Glasgow	the King					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Co-Agent
2	is a in a quote	past	the cakes	mint					tree rules
3	is in a quote	past	the hats					mad 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: Ask what?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Ask	obj
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

What flavour were the cakes?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 flavour	det
2	flavour	flavour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cakes	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cakes	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cakes	det
5	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cakes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	what flavour	the cakes					tree rules

Option 2

What time was the party?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 party	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 party	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 party	det
5	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 party	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	what time	the party					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

What was the King like?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	like	like	INTJ	_	1 What	discourse
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the King						tree rules

Option 4

What colour were the hats?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hats	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hats	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hats	det
5	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	what colour	the hats					tree rules

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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