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Test 2 · Verbs: doing words and being words

Ben first says the verb in "The dog barked" is "dog". What question would help him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ben, dog, question · What happens: say, bark, be, help · To what, where: verb, dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 of lesson 3 «Verbs: doing words and being words» 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: Ben first says the verb in "The dog barked" is "dog".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 says	advmod
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 verb	det
5	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	14 dog	case
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 dog	punct
8	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dog	nsubj
10	barked	bark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 dog	acl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 barked	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 dog	cop
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 dog	punct
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 verb	nmod
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 dog	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ben	the verb				first property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent verb=Topic
2	bark in a quote	participle		the dog not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	the dog					in dog	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: What question would help him?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 question	det
2	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 help	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 help	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	would	what question		dog				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Which word has a capital?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 capital	det
5	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	which word	a capital					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Which word says what happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happened	nsubj
5	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	which word						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Which word is first?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 first	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 first	cop
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 first	punct

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

Option 4

Which word is the longest?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 longest	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 longest	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 longest	det
5	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 longest	punct

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

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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