Test 10 · Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas
Grace says "scissors is sharp". Which is the usual form?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grace, scissors · What happens: say, be · To what, where: usual form · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 of lesson 2 «Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas» 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: Grace says "scissors is sharp".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sharp | punct |
| 4 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sharp | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sharp | cop |
| 6 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 says | ccomp |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sharp | punct |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Grace | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | scissors | sharp 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.
Sentence 2: Which is the usual form?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 form | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 form | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 form | det |
| 4 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 form | amod |
| 5 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 form | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the usual form | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The scissors are sharp
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 scissors | det |
| 2 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sharp | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sharp | cop |
| 4 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the scissors | sharp property | tree rules |
Option 2
The scissor are sharp
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 scissor | det |
| 2 | scissor | scissor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sharp | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sharp | cop |
| 4 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the scissor | sharp property | tree rules |
Option 3
The scissors is sharp
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 scissors | det |
| 2 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sharp | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sharp | cop |
| 4 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the scissors | sharp property | tree rules |
Option 4
The scissor is sharps
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 scissor | det |
| 2 | scissor | scissor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sharps | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sharps | cop |
| 4 | sharps | sharp | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the scissor | sharps | tree rules |
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