Test 5 · Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room
Cara: «it's a shared iPad, so I can read whatever's on it, innit». Right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, I · What happens: share, be, read, innit · To what, where: shared iPad, whatever, iPad
This is test 5 of lesson 508 «Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room» 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: Cara: «it's a shared iPad, so I can read whatever's on it, innit».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cara | carum | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 iPad | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 iPad | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 iPad | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 iPad | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 iPad | det |
| 7 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 iPad | amod |
| 8 | iPad | iPad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cara | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 read | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 read | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 read | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 read | aux |
| 13 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 iPad | parataxis |
| 14 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 read | obj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 it | cop |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 whatever | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 innit | punct |
| 19 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 read | conj |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 read | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cara | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | it | a shared iPad | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | read in a quote | can | I | whatever | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | iPad | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | innit in a quote | infinitive | I not said here | 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: Right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, if she's the older one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 one | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 one | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 one | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 7 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | she | the older one | tree rules |
Option 2
Yes, shared means nothing is private
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 shared | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 private | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 private | cop |
| 7 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 means | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | nothing | private property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
No, messages are still private
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 private | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 private | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 private | cop |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 private | advmod |
| 6 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | messages | still | private property | tree rules |
Option 4
No, but only on weekdays
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 weekdays | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 weekdays | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 weekdays | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 weekdays | case |
| 6 | weekdays | weekday | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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