Test 11 · ★★ · Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»
«the little ones did it but Dad said Harrison should've put it away, so it's Harrison's fault». Who should say sorry?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: little ones, Dad, it · What happens: do, say, put away, be · To what, where: it, Harrison, fault, sorry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 502 «Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»» 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: «the little ones did it but Dad said Harrison should've put it away, so it's Harrison's fault».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ones | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ones | amod |
| 4 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 did | obj |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 8 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | conj |
| 10 | Harrison | Harrison | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 put | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 put | aux |
| 12 | 've | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 put | aux |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 put | obj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 put | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fault | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 fault | advmod |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fault | nsubj |
| 19 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 fault | cop |
| 20 | Harrison | Harrison | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 fault | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Harrison | case |
| 22 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | parataxis |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 22 fault | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past | the little ones | it | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Dad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | put away in a quote | should · perfect · passive | Harrison | away property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset it=Goal | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | it | Harrison's fault | 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: Who should say sorry?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 say | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | aux |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 say | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | should | sorry | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The little ones too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ones | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ones | amod |
| 3 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 ones | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nobody at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Nobody | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Only Harrison
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 Harrison | advmod |
| 2 | Harrison | Harrison | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Only Dad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 Dad | advmod |
| 2 | Dad | dad | 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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