Test 7 · ★★★ · Australia and New Zealand: a short story

some guy online says hillary climbed everest alone. what's fair?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guy, hillary · What happens: say, climb, be · To what, where: everest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Australia and New Zealand: 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	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 guy	det
2	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
3	online	online	ADV	_	2 guy	advmod
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hillary	hillary	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 climbed	nsubj
6	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
7	everest	everest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 climbed	obj
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 climbed	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 fair	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 fair	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fair	cop
12	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 climbed	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	some guy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	climb	past	hillary	everest	alone property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location everest=Theme
3	is	present			fair 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.

The options

Option 1

He flew to the top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 top	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 top	det
5	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	He					to the top result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to top=Result

Option 2

Yes, completely alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 alone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	completely	completely	ADV	_	4 alone	advmod
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Cook climbed it first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cook	Cook	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 climbed	nsubj
2	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 climbed	obj
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 climbed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past	Cook	it				first property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He climbed it with Tenzing Norgay from Nepal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 climbed	nsubj
2	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 climbed	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 Tenzing	case
5	Tenzing	Tenzing	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 climbed	obl
6	Norgay	Norgay	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Tenzing	flat
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 Nepal	case
8	Nepal	Nepal	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 climbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past	He	it		Nepal		with Tenzing	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient it=Extent from nepal=Initial_State

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