Test 5 · ★ · Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away
Rian: «what's a servo, is it like a robot?» What's the truth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rian, truth · What happens: be · To what, where: servo
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 510 «Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away» 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: Rian: «what's a servo, is it like a robot?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rian | Rian | PROPN | _ | 13 robot | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 servo | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 servo | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 servo | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 servo | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 servo | det |
| 7 | servo | servo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rian | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rian | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 robot | cop |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 robot | nsubj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 robot | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 robot | det |
| 13 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 robot | punct |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 robot | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Rian | a servo | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Rian | like a robot | 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 truth?
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 | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the truth | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A kind of sausage they have on toast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 sausage | case |
| 4 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kind | nmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 toast | case |
| 8 | toast | toast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | they | a kind of sausage | toast | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A petrol station
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 station | det |
| 2 | petrol | petrol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 station | compound |
| 3 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A school for kids in the outback
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 school | det |
| 2 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 kids | case |
| 4 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 school | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 outback | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 outback | det |
| 7 | outback | outback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kids | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A robot waiter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 waiter | det |
| 2 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waiter | compound |
| 3 | waiter | waiter | 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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