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Test 1 · Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions

Your mate writes "the massive huge giant spider". What would you tell him?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, you · What happens: write, tell · To what, where: mate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 4 «Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions» 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: Your mate writes "the massive huge giant spider".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writes	nsubj
3	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 spider	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spider	det
6	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 spider	amod
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 spider	amod
8	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 spider	amod
9	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writes	ccomp
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 spider	punct
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 writes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	Your mate						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: What would you tell him?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	would	you		mate				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Swap them into alphabetical order

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swap	swap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Swap	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 order	case
4	alphabetical	alphabetical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 order	amod
5	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swap	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	imperative	you not said here	them = they		alphabetical order			vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Pick one size word and add a different detail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 word	nummod
3	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 word	compound
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pick	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 add	cc
6	add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pick	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 detail	det
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 detail	amod
9	detail	detail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 add	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	imperative	you not said here	one size word					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
2	add speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	a different detail					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Patient

Option 3

It's perfect, more adjectives are always better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 perfect	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 perfect	cop
3	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 better	punct
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 adjectives	amod
6	adjectives	adjective	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 better	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 better	cop
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 better	advmod
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 perfect	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					perfect property	tree rules
2	is	present	more adjectives					always, good property	tree rules

Option 4

Add three more size words to make it scarier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 words	nummod
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 words	amod
4	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 words	compound
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Add	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Add	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	obj
9	scarier	scarey	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	three more size words					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
2	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	it				scarey property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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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