Test 2 · ★★ · Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years chang…
Abby says Gran is delulu about the washing machine. What is fair?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Abby · What happens: say, be · To what, where: delulu · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 65 «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day» 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: Abby says Gran is delulu about the washing machine.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Abby | Abby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 delulu | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 delulu | cop |
| 5 | delulu | delulu | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 says | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 machine | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 machine | det |
| 8 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 machine | compound |
| 9 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 delulu | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Abby | delulu | about the washing machine | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent delulu=Topic |
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 fair?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 fair | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fair | cop |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fair | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fair property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
It is a real debate; home machines freed huge amounts of time
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 | 5 debate | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 debate | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 debate | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 debate | amod |
| 5 | debate | debate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 freed | punct |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 machines | compound |
| 8 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 freed | nsubj |
| 9 | freed | free | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 debate | acl:relcl |
| 10 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 amounts | amod |
| 11 | amounts | amount | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 freed | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 amounts | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a real debate | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | free | past | home machines | huge amounts of time | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer amount=Source | ||||
| 3 | amount | time | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |
Option 2
Gran's right, but only because the internet came in 1800
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 right | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Gran | case |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 came | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 internet | det |
| 9 | internet | internet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1800 | case |
| 12 | 1800 | 1800 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 came | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Gran's right | 1800 | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1800=Location |
Option 3
Washing machines came before fire, so they're nothing special
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Washing | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 machines | amod |
| 2 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 fire | case |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 nothing | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 nothing | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 nothing | nsubj |
| 9 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 nothing | cop |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 came | parataxis |
| 11 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 nothing | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | gerund | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | come | past | Washing machines | fire | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before fire=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | machines = machine | nothing | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Gran is totally wrong: washing machines changed nothing at home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrong | cop |
| 3 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 4 wrong | advmod |
| 4 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 changed | punct |
| 6 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 machines | compound |
| 7 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 changed | nsubj |
| 8 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrong | conj |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 changed | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 changed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Gran | totally, wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | change | past | washing machines | nothing | home | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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