Test 8 · Trusting again
Teacher: «Mark your own spelling test, Max.» What's the teacher showing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Teacher, your · What happens: mark, test, show · To what, where: own spelling test
This is test 8 of lesson 455 «Trusting again» 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: Teacher: «Mark your own spelling test, Max.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Mark | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mark | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mark | punct |
| 4 | Mark | mark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 test | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 test | amod |
| 7 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 test | compound |
| 8 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Mark | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Max | punct |
| 10 | Max | Max | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 test | appos |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mark | punct |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mark | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark in a quote | infinitive | Teacher | your own spelling test | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent test=Destination | ||||
| 2 | test in a quote | your | nom test «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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 teacher showing?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 showing | obj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 showing | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 teacher | det |
| 4 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 showing | nsubj |
| 5 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 showing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · progressive | the teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
She is too busy to mark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 busy | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 busy | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 busy | advmod |
| 4 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 mark | mark |
| 6 | mark | mark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 busy | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | She | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mark | to-infinitive | She not said here | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
She thinks he'll cheat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thinks | nsubj |
| 2 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cheat | nsubj |
| 4 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 cheat | aux |
| 5 | cheat | cheat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thinks | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | She | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cheat | future | he | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Spelling doesn't matter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 matter | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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 |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not matter | present · do-support | Spelling | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
She trusts him again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 trusts | nsubj |
| 2 | trusts | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 trusts | obj |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 trusts | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | present | She | him = he | again | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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