Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Language / Adjectives and adverbs: describing thi… / t8

Test 8 · Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions

Zoe says "worse" must be a spelling mistake for "badder". What's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Zoe, worse · What happens: say, be · To what, where: spelling mistake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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: Zoe says "worse" must be a spelling mistake for "badder".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zoe	Zoe	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 worse	punct
4	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 mistake	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 worse	punct
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 mistake	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 mistake	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mistake	det
9	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mistake	compound
10	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 badder	case
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 badder	punct
13	badder	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 mistake	parataxis
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 badder	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Zoe						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	must	worse	a spelling mistake					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's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Bad, worse, worst is an old irregular pattern

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pattern	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 worse	punct
3	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Bad	parataxis
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 worst	punct
5	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	1 Bad	conj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pattern	cop
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pattern	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pattern	amod
9	irregular	irregular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pattern	amod
10	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a Bad old irregular pattern					tree rules

Option 2

Worse and badder are both school English

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 school	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 badder	cc
3	badder	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Worse	conj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 school	cop
5	both	both	ADV	_	6 school	advmod
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 school	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Worse school				both property	tree rules

Option 3

Worse is the American spelling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 spelling	amod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 spelling	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spelling	det
4	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spelling	amod
5	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the Worse American spelling					tree rules

Option 4

She's right, it should be bad, badder, baddest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bad	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bad	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 bad	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 bad	cop
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 right	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 badder	punct
10	badder	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 bad	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 baddest	punct
12	baddest	badd	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 right	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					right property	tree rules
2	is	should	it					bad property	tree rules
3	be								tree rules
4	be		She not said here						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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/t8/