Test 7 · ★ · Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust ea…

Grace reads the oldest customer complaint is about bad copper. legit or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grace, oldest customer complaint · What happens: read, be · To what, where: bad copper

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 63 «Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other» 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	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reads	nsubj
2	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 complaint	det
4	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 complaint	amod
5	customer	customer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 complaint	compound
6	complaint	complaint	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 copper	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 copper	cop
8	about	about	ADV	_	10 copper	advmod
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 copper	amod
10	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reads	ccomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 legit	punct
12	legit	legit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 copper	conj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 nah	cc
14	nah	nah	INTJ	_	12 legit	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reads	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	Grace						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the oldest customer complaint	bad copper and legit				about 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Legit; Nanni wrote it to Ea-nasir on clay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Legit	legit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrote	obl:unmarked
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Legit	punct
3	Nanni	Nanni	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wrote	nsubj
4	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wrote	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 nasir	case
7	Ea	Ea	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 nasir	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Ea	punct
9	nasir	nasir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrote	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 clay	case
11	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nasir	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	Nanni	Legit	Ea nasir on clay				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to nasir=Recipient

Option 2

Nah, ancient people never complained about stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 ancient	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 complained	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 complained	advmod
6	complained	complain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 stuff	case
8	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 complained	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not complain speech: other	past	ancient people					about stuff	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about stuff=Topic

Option 3

Legit, but it was written in 1990 as a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Legit	legit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 written	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 written	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 written	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 written	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 written	aux:pass
6	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 1990	case
8	1990	1990	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 written	obl
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 joke	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 joke	det
11	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 written	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past · passive		Legit		1990		as a joke	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in 1990=Destination

Option 4

Nah, it's about a broken phone, not copper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 phone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 phone	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 phone	cop
5	about	about	ADV	_	8 phone	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 phone	det
7	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 phone	amod
8	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 copper	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 copper	advmod
11	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 phone	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	present	it	a broken phone and copper				about property	tree rules

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