Test 10 · ★★ · Siblings as best mates and as rivals
Tunde's well good at math and rubbish at drawing; Dayo is the other way round. What's the smartest deal?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tunde, rubbish, Dayo, smartest deal · What happens: be, draw · To what, where: math, other way
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 507 «Siblings as best mates and as rivals» 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: Tunde's well good at math and rubbish at drawing; Dayo is the other way round.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tunde | Tunde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 good | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | cop |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 good | advmod |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 math | case |
| 6 | math | math | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 good | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rubbish | cc |
| 8 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 math | conj |
| 9 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 10 drawing | mark |
| 10 | drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 rubbish | acl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 way | punct |
| 12 | Dayo | Dayo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 way | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 way | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 way | amod |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 good | parataxis |
| 17 | round | round | ADV | _ | 16 way | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Tunde | math and rubbish | good, well property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | draw | gerund | rubbish not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | Dayo | the other way | round 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 the smartest deal?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 deal | det |
| 4 | smartest | smart | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 deal | amod |
| 5 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the smartest deal | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Swap help: math for art
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swap | swap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 help | compound |
| 2 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 math | punct |
| 4 | math | math | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 help | conj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 art | case |
| 6 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 math | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Tunde does all of Dayo's homework
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tunde | Tunde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 does | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 does | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 homework | case |
| 5 | Dayo | Dayo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 homework | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Dayo | case |
| 7 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 all | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | Tunde | all | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality |
Option 3
Dayo gives up drawing to do math
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dayo | Dayo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gives | nsubj |
| 2 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 gives | compound:prt |
| 4 | drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 gives | acl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 drawing | xcomp |
| 7 | math | math | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | present | Dayo | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | draw | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | math | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent math=Eventuality |
Option 4
Both just copy from the internet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 copy | det |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 copy | advmod |
| 3 | copy | copy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 internet | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 internet | det |
| 6 | internet | internet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 copy | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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