Test 12 · ★★ · Hiding it from friends: being skint at school
Seven kids at the table, Ruaridh included: two went abroad, one went to Cornwall, the rest went nowhere. «Everyone goes away except me», he thinks. How many others stayed home like him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Seven kids, two, one, rest, Everyone, many others · What happens: include, go, go away, think, stay · To what, where: Cornwall · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 489 «Hiding it from friends: being skint at school» 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: Seven kids at the table, Ruaridh included: two went abroad, one went to Cornwall, the rest went nowhere.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 kids | nummod |
| 2 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 included | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 table | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 table | det |
| 5 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kids | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 included | punct |
| 7 | Ruaridh | Ruaridh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 included | nsubj |
| 8 | included | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 included | parataxis |
| 12 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Cornwall | case |
| 17 | Cornwall | Cornwall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rest | det |
| 20 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | conj |
| 22 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 went | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 included | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | past | Seven kids at the table | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | past | two | abroad property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | one | Cornwall | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cornwall=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | go | past | the rest | nowhere property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: «Everyone goes away except me», he thinks.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| 2 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 goes | advmod |
| 5 | except | except | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 goes | obl |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thinks | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thinks | nsubj |
| 10 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 goes | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away in a quote | present | Everyone | except rest; away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | rest | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: How many others stayed home like him?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 others | amod |
| 3 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 stayed | advmod |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stayed | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 stayed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | many others | like rest; home property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
None
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Three
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 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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