Test 1 · ★ · Twins and big families
«twins are basically the same person innit». What's true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: twins · What happens: be · To what, where: person innit
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 503 «Twins and big 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: «twins are basically the same person innit».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 innit | punct |
| 2 | twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 innit | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 innit | cop |
| 4 | basically | basically | ADV | _ | 8 innit | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 innit | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 person | amod |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 innit | compound |
| 8 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 innit | punct |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 innit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | twins | the person innit | basically 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's true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Each twin is her own person
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 twin | det |
| 2 | twin | twin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 person | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 person | cop |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 person | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 person | amod |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | each twin | her own person | tree rules |
Option 2
Twins can't have different styles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 styles | amod |
| 6 | styles | style | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | can | Twins | different styles | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent style=Patient |
Option 3
Twins always like the same food
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 1 Twins | advmod |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 food | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 food | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 food | amod |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 always | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Twins share one brain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 share | nsubj |
| 2 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 brain | nummod |
| 4 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 share | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | present | Twins | one brain | tree rules |
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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