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Test 11 · ★★★ · The age of science

Two friends argue about whose idea is right. What is the scientist's way to settle it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Two friends, idea, way · What happens: argue, be, settle · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 29 «The age of science» 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: Two friends argue about whose idea is right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 friends	nummod
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 argue	nsubj
3	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	8 right	mark
5	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	6 idea	nmod:poss
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 right	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 right	cop
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 argue	ccomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 argue	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	present	Two friends						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	idea					right property	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: What is the scientist's way to settle it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 scientist	det
4	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 way	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 scientist	case
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 settle	mark
8	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 way	acl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 settle	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the scientist's way						tree rules
2	settle	to-infinitive	the scientist's way not said here	way					vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The louder one wins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wins	nsubj
4	wins	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	present	the louder one						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The older one wins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wins	nsubj
4	wins	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	present	the older one						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Flip a coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flip	flip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 coin	det
3	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Flip	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flip	imperative	you not said here	a coin					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Do a fair test and look at the results

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 test	det
3	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 test	amod
4	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Do	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 look	cc
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Do	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 results	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 results	det
9	results	result	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here	a fair test					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Eventuality
2	look	infinitive	you not said here					at the results	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at result=Theme

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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