Test 8 · ★★★ · Too many details, too few
Kid: «Paris was sick, Eiffel Tower, croissants, a man in a beret». «Sick» here means great. What's missing that a real trip would have?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Paris, real trip · What happens: be, mean, have
This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: Kid: «Paris was sick, Eiffel Tower, croissants, a man in a beret».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 sick | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 sick | punct |
| 4 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sick | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sick | cop |
| 6 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Kid | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Tower | punct |
| 8 | Eiffel | Eiffel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Tower | compound |
| 9 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kid | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 croissants | punct |
| 11 | croissants | croissant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Kid | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kid | appos |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 beret | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 beret | det |
| 17 | beret | beret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 man | nmod |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kid | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | Paris | sick 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: «Sick» here means great.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sick | punct |
| 2 | Sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | csubj |
| 3 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sick | punct |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Sick | advmod |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | xcomp |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | great property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: What's missing that a real trip would have?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 missing | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 missing | cop |
| 3 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 have | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 trip | det |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 trip | amod |
| 7 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 missing | ccomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 missing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | missing property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | would | a real trip | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
A croissant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 croissant | det |
| 2 | croissant | croissant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Famous places
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 places | amod |
| 2 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Small personal odd details
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 details | amod |
| 2 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 details | amod |
| 3 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 details | amod |
| 4 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The word «Paris»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 Paris | punct |
| 4 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 word | appos |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 Paris | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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