Test 9 · ★★ · Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people alrea…
Hockey fans in Toronto shout Canada. What were they actually shouting, long ago?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hockey fans, fans · What happens: shout · To what, where: Canada
This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there» 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: Hockey fans in Toronto shout Canada.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hockey | hockey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fans | compound |
| 2 | fans | fan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shout | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Toronto | case |
| 4 | Toronto | Toronto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fans | nmod |
| 5 | shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 shout | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shout | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | present | Hockey fans in Toronto | Canada | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canada=Topic |
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 were they actually shouting, long ago?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 shouting | obj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shouting | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 shouting | nsubj |
| 4 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 5 shouting | advmod |
| 5 | shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ago | punct |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 ago | advmod |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 shouting | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 shouting | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past · progressive | fans = fan | actually, ago property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A French word for cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 2 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 word | amod |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 cold | case |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 word | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
An Iroquoian word for village
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 2 | Iroquoian | iroquoian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 word | amod |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 village | case |
| 5 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 word | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A Spanish word for sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 2 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 word | amod |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 word | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
An English word for beaver
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 2 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 word | amod |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 beaver | case |
| 5 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 word | nmod |
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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