Test 1 · ★★ · The United States: a short story

why'd they chuck tea in the sea, bit of a waste innit

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: chuck · To what, where: tea, sea

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 38 «The United States: a short story» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 chuck	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	4 chuck	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chuck	nsubj
4	chuck	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chuck	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chuck	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bit	punct
10	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sea	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 innit	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 innit	det
13	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 innit	compound
14	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	present	they	tea		the sea			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tea=Theme in sea=Destination

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It was too hot to drink

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 hot	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 hot	advmod
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 drink	mark
6	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hot	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					hot property	tree rules
2	drink	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

To feed the fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 feed	mark
2	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fish	det
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	to-infinitive			the fish				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Recipient

Option 3

They didn't like the taste of British tea at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 taste	det
6	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 like	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 tea	case
8	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tea	amod
9	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taste	nmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 like	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	They	the taste of British tea		all			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot taste=Theme
2	taste			British tea					nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To protest against taxes they had no say in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 protest	mark
2	protest	protest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	advcl
3	against	against	ADP	_	4 taxes	case
4	taxes	tax	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 protest	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 say	det
8	say	say	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	8 say	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protest speech: disagree	to-infinitive	taxes = tax not said here					against taxes	vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent against tax=Topic
2	have	past	taxes = tax	no say					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent say=Patient

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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