Test 2 · Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions
Your little cousin says "a wooden old lovely box". How would most people say it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little cousin, most people · What happens: say · To what, where: box · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 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 little cousin says "a wooden old lovely box".
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 | 3 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cousin | amod |
| 3 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 box | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 box | det |
| 7 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 box | amod |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 box | amod |
| 9 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 box | amod |
| 10 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | ccomp |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 box | punct |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Your little cousin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: How would most people say it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 say | advmod |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 3 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 people | amod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 say | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | most people | box | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
a box lovely old wooden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 box | det |
| 2 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 box | amod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wooden | amod |
| 5 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lovely | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a lovely old wooden box
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 box | det |
| 2 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 box | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 box | amod |
| 4 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 box | amod |
| 5 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a wooden lovely old box
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 box | det |
| 2 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 box | amod |
| 3 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 box | amod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 box | amod |
| 5 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
an old wooden lovely box
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 box | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 box | amod |
| 3 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 box | amod |
| 4 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 box | amod |
| 5 | box | box | 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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