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Test 2 · ★★★ · Thinking cleverly about people

Two brothers in Houston keep fighting over who gets the bigger half of a sandwich. What simple rule solves it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Two brothers, simple rule · What happens: keep, fight, get, solve · To what, where: bigger half, half

This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 60 «Thinking cleverly about people» 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: Two brothers in Houston keep fighting over who gets the bigger half of a sandwich.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 brothers	nummod
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Houston	case
4	Houston	Houston	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 brothers	nmod
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 gets	case
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 gets	nsubj
9	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fighting	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 half	det
11	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 half	amod
12	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	9 gets	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 sandwich	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sandwich	det
15	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 half	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Two brothers in Houston						tree rules
2	fight	gerund	Two brothers in Houston not said here						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get	present		the bigger half of a sandwich					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer half=Stimulus

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 simple rule solves it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 solves	obj
2	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rule	amod
3	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 solves	nsubj
4	solves	solve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 solves	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 solves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	solve	present	simple rule	half					tree rules

The options

Option 1

Mum always gives the bigger half to the younger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 gives	advmod
3	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 half	det
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 half	amod
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 gives	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 younger	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 younger	det
9	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 gives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Mum	the bigger half	the younger			always property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent half=Theme to young=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

One cuts, the other picks his half first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 cuts	nsubj
2	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 picks	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 other	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 picks	nsubj
6	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cuts	conj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 half	nmod:poss
8	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 picks	obj
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 picks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	present	One						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	pick	present	the other	his half				first property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They take turns eating bites from the same half

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 take	nsubj
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 take	obj
4	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 turns	acl
5	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eating	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 half	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 half	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 half	amod
9	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	They	turns		the same half			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent turn=Theme from half=Initial_Location
2	eat	gerund	turns not said here	bites					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Patient

Option 4

The one who complains less gets the bigger half

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gets	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 complains	nsubj
4	complains	complain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 one	acl:relcl
5	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 complains	obj
6	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 half	det
8	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 half	amod
9	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 gets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	complain speech: other	present	the one	less					tree rules
2	get	present	the one	the bigger half					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer half=Stimulus

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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