Test 5 · ★ · Feuds between families
«Sure the cake was stale anyway!» What is this feud really about?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cake · What happens: be · To what, where: feud
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 474 «Feuds between families» 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: «Sure the cake was stale anyway!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 stale | punct |
| 2 | Sure | sure | INTJ | _ | 6 stale | discourse |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cake | det |
| 4 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stale | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stale | cop |
| 6 | stale | stale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 6 stale | advmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 stale | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 stale | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | the cake | anyway, stale 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: What is this feud really about?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 feud | cop |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 feud | det |
| 4 | feud | feud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 about | advmod |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 1 What | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this feud | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
An old wedding argument, now half a joke
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 argument | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 argument | amod |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 argument | compound |
| 4 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 joke | punct |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 joke | advmod |
| 7 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 9 joke | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 joke | det |
| 9 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 argument | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A secret about money
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 secret | det |
| 2 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 money | case |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 secret | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A crime that went to court and a judge decided
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 crime | det |
| 2 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 crime | acl:relcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 court | case |
| 6 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 decided | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 judge | det |
| 9 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 decided | nsubj |
| 10 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | a crime | court | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | decide | participle | a judge | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
A football rivalry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rivalry | det |
| 2 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rivalry | compound |
| 3 | rivalry | rivalry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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