Test 10 · ★★ · «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes
★★★ Sienna-Rae was upset on Monday. The head said she'd sort it «within three school days». There's an inset day (no school) on Wednesday. By which day at the latest?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: head, inset day · What happens: upset, say, sort, be · To what, where: ★ ★, ★ · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 524 ««Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes» 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: ★★★ Sienna-Rae was upset on Monday.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 upset | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 6 Rae | case |
| 4 | Sienna | Sienna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Rae | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sienna | punct |
| 6 | Rae | Rae | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 upset | aux:pass |
| 8 | upset | upset | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Monday | case |
| 10 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 upset | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 upset | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | upset | past · passive | ★ ★ ★ Sienna Rae | monday | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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: The head said she'd sort it «within three school days».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 head | det |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sort | nsubj |
| 5 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 sort | aux |
| 6 | sort | sort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sort | obj |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 days | punct |
| 9 | within | within | ADP | _ | 12 days | case |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 days | nummod |
| 11 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 days | compound |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sort | obl |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 days | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the head | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sort | would | head | ★ | day | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Sentence 3: There's an inset day (no school) on Wednesday.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 's | expl |
| 2 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | inset | inset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | compound |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 's | nsubj |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 school | punct |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 school | det |
| 8 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | appos |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 school | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 Wednesday | case |
| 11 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 's | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 's | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a inset day | there | wednesday | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Sentence 4: By which day at the latest?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 latest | obl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 latest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 latest | det |
| 6 | latest | late | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 latest | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Friday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Wednesday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Thursday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thursday | Thursday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Monday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | 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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