Test 3 · ★★ · Accents and dialects around the world
A tourist in Johannesburg is told "Stop at the robot." She looks around for a machine. What should she look for?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: tourist · What happens: tell, stop, look around, look · To what, where: tourist, robot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Accents and dialects around the world» of the language 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: A tourist in Johannesburg is told "Stop at the robot."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tourist | det |
| 2 | tourist | tourist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Johannesburg | case |
| 4 | Johannesburg | Johannesburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tourist | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | aux:pass |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Stop | punct |
| 8 | Stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 told | xcomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 robot | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 robot | det |
| 11 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Stop | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Stop | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Stop | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | a tourist in Johannesburg | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stop not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | a tourist in Johannesburg not said here | the robot | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at robot=Location |
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: She looks around for a machine.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looks | nsubj |
| 2 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | around | around | ADV | _ | 2 looks | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 machine | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 machine | det |
| 6 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looks | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look around | present | tourist | for a machine; around property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for machine=Theme |
Sentence 3: What should she look for?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 look | obl |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 look | nsubj |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 look | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | should | tourist | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1
A police officer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 officer | det |
| 2 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 officer | compound |
| 3 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A robot shop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 shop | det |
| 2 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shop | compound |
| 3 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A big metal statue
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 statue | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 statue | amod |
| 3 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 statue | compound |
| 4 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A traffic light
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 light | det |
| 2 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 light | compound |
| 3 | light | light | 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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