Test 10 · ★★ · Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the…

The teacher asks, "Is the world getting better?" Half the class yells "Yes!", half "Nah, it's cooked!" Who's right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, world, class, half · What happens: ask, be, get, yell, cook · To what, where: world, class · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?» 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: The teacher asks, "Is the world getting better?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 world	parataxis
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct
6	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 world	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 world	acl
10	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 getting	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 world	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 world	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	the teacher			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present		the world		tree rules
3	get in a quote	gerund	the world not said here		good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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: Half the class yells "Yes!", half "Nah, it's cooked!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 class	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 class	det
3	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yells	nsubj
4	yells	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Yes	punct
6	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 yells	ccomp
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 Yes	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Yes	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 half	punct
10	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 yells	parataxis
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 cooked	punct
12	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	16 cooked	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Nah	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cooked	nsubj:pass
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 cooked	aux:pass
16	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 half	acl:relcl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 half	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 yells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	present	half class						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cook in a quote	present · passive	half not said here	class					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Sentence 3: Who's right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only the "no" side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 side	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 side	det
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 no	punct
4	no	no	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 side	compound
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 no	punct
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Nobody, because the world never changes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 changes	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 changes	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 changes	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 world	det
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 changes	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 changes	advmod
7	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	present	Nobody						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Both sides have real evidence: health and poverty improved, climate and nature worsened

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 sides	det
2	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 evidence	amod
5	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 health	punct
7	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 worsened	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 poverty	cc
9	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 health	conj
10	improved	improve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 poverty	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 climate	punct
12	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 health	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 nature	cc
14	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 health	conj
15	worsened	worsen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 evidence	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	both sides	real evidence	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Patient
2	improve	participle		poverty not said here	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	worsen	past	health and poverty and climate and nature	real evidence not said here	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent evidence=Patient

Option 4

Only the "yes" side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 side	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 side	det
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 yes	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 side	discourse
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 yes	punct
6	side	side	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.

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