Test 7 · ★★ · The Maya
Your chocolate bar is sweet; Maya chocolate was not. What was different?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chocolate bar, Maya chocolate · What happens: be, not be
This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 18 «The Maya» of the history 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: Your chocolate bar is sweet; Maya chocolate was not.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 bar | nmod:poss |
| 2 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bar | compound |
| 3 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sweet | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sweet | cop |
| 5 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
| 7 | Maya | Maya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 chocolate | compound |
| 8 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sweet | conj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 was | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sweet | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Your chocolate bar | sweet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not be | past | Maya chocolate | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 was different?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 different | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 different | cop |
| 3 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 different | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | different property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It was the same as ours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 same | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 same | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 same | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 ours | case |
| 6 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 same | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | as ours; same property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It was bitter, frothy, sometimes with chilli, and had no sugar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bitter | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bitter | cop |
| 3 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 frothy | punct |
| 5 | frothy | frothy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bitter | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 chilli | punct |
| 7 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 chilli | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 chilli | case |
| 9 | chilli | chilli | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bitter | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bitter | parataxis |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 sugar | det |
| 14 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | bitter property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | have | past | no sugar | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient |
Option 3
It was made from milk only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 milk | case |
| 5 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | It | milk | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from milk=Material |
Option 4
It was frozen like ice cream
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 frozen | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 frozen | aux:pass |
| 3 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 cream | case |
| 5 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cream | compound |
| 6 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 frozen | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | past · passive | It | like ice cream | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
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