Test 1 · Continents and oceans
Mate reckons there's exactly seven continents and that's a scientific fact. Right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, that · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: seven continents, scientific fact
This is test 1 of lesson 5 «Continents and oceans» of the geography 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: Mate reckons there's exactly seven continents and that's a scientific fact.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reckons | nsubj |
| 2 | reckons | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 's | expl |
| 4 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 reckons | ccomp |
| 5 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 6 seven | advmod |
| 6 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 continents | nummod |
| 7 | continents | continent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 reckons | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fact | cc |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 fact | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fact | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fact | det |
| 12 | scientific | scientific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fact | amod |
| 13 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 continents | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reckons | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | present | Mate | seven continents and a scientific fact | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | present | Mate not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | a scientific fact | 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, scientists fixed it in 1884
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 fixed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fixed | nsubj |
| 4 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fixed | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1884 | case |
| 7 | 1884 | 1884 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 fixed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past | scientists | it | 1884 | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 2
No, there are really twelve
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 are | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 are | expl |
| 4 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 twelve | advmod |
| 6 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 are | nsubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | twelve | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yes, every country teaches seven
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 teaches | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 country | det |
| 4 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 teaches | nsubj |
| 5 | teaches | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 teaches | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | present | every country | seven | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent seven=Recipient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
No, how many is an agreement and differs by country
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 agreement | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 agreement | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 many | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 agreement | amod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 agreement | cop |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 agreement | det |
| 7 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 differs | cc |
| 9 | differs | differ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 agreement | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 differs | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a many agreement | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | differ | present | by country | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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