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Test 9 · ★ · Chickens, goats and little creatures

A friend says that if you chop a worm in two you get two worms. What should you say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, you · What happens: say, chop, get · To what, where: worm, two, two worms · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 68 «Chickens, goats and little creatures» 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: A friend says that if you chop a worm in two you get two worms.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 chop	mark
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 chop	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 chop	nsubj
7	chop	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 worm	det
9	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chop	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 two	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 chop	obl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 get	nsubj
13	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 two	acl:relcl
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 worms	nummod
15	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 get	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	chop a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a worm		two			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent worm=Patient in two=Location
3	get	present	you	two worms					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer worm=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 should you say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	should	you						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

That is true only for big worms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 worms	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 worms	case
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 worms	amod
7	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	That					for big worms; true property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

That is a myth; usually only one part survives, if any

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 myth	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 myth	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 myth	det
4	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 survives	punct
6	usually	usually	ADV	_	10 survives	advmod
7	only	only	ADV	_	10 survives	advmod
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 part	nummod
9	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 survives	nsubj
10	survives	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 myth	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 survives	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 any	mark
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 survives	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a myth					tree rules
2	survive	present	one part					usually property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

That is true if you wait a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 wait	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 wait	nsubj
6	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wait	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	That					true property	tree rules
2	wait a condition, not said to happen	present	you				day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

That is true for all worms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 worms	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 worms	det
6	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	That					for all worms; true property	tree rules

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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