Test 8 · Learning through the ages: schools, universities, librarie…
Patrick's uncle learned plumbing by watching and doing, bud. What old way is that?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: uncle, that · What happens: learn, plumb, watch, do, be · To what, where: bud
This is test 8 of lesson 64 «Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and 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: Patrick's uncle learned plumbing by watching and doing, bud.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Patrick | Patrick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Patrick | case |
| 3 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 learned | nsubj |
| 4 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | plumbing | plumb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 learned | xcomp |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 watching | mark |
| 7 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 plumbing | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 doing | cc |
| 9 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 watching | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bud | punct |
| 11 | bud | bud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 doing | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 learned | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | Patrick's uncle | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | plumb | gerund | Patrick's uncle not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | watch | gerund | Patrick's uncle not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do | gerund | Patrick's uncle not said here | bud | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bud=Eventuality |
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 old way is that?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 way | amod |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | old way obl:unmarked | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
A university degree, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 degree | det |
| 2 | university | university | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 degree | compound |
| 3 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mate | punct |
| 5 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 degree | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A guild run by kings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 guild | det |
| 2 | guild | guild | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 guild | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 kings | case |
| 5 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 run | obl:agent |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | participle | a guild not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
An apprenticeship
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 apprenticeship | det |
| 2 | apprenticeship | apprenticeship | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
A proper online course
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 course | det |
| 2 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 course | amod |
| 3 | online | online | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 course | amod |
| 4 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science/t8/