Test 2 · Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas
Nan texts "meet u in leeds on friday x". If you wrote it up properly for school, which words would you capitalise?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Nan texts, you, words · What happens: meet, write up, capitalise · To what, where: u, leeds, x, school
This is test 2 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: Nan texts "meet u in leeds on friday x".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nan | nan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 texts | compound |
| 2 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 meet | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 meet | punct |
| 4 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | u | you | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 meet | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 leeds | case |
| 7 | leeds | leed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 meet | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 x | case |
| 9 | friday | friday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 x | compound |
| 10 | x | x | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meet | obl |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 x | punct |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 meet | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet in a quote | present | Nan texts | u | leeds | on friday x | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent |
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: If you wrote it up properly for school, which words would you capitalise?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 wrote | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 wrote | nsubj |
| 3 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wrote | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 wrote | compound:prt |
| 6 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 3 wrote | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 school | case |
| 8 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrote | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 capitalise | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 capitalise | obj |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 capitalise | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 capitalise | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 capitalise | nsubj |
| 14 | capitalise | capitalise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 school | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrote | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write up | past | you | x | for school; properly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Theme for school=Attribute | |||
| 2 | capitalise | would | words | school | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Leeds and Friday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Friday | cc |
| 3 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Leeds | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
none, texts and school are the same
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 8 same | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 texts | punct |
| 3 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 none | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 school | cc |
| 5 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 none | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 same | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 same | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | none | same property | tree rules |
Option 3
Friday only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 1 Friday | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
meet and leeds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 leeds | cc |
| 3 | leeds | leed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 meet | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | imperative | you not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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