Test 11 · ★ · The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines

★★★ «8 out of 10 owners said their cats preferred it». Which survey would you trust most?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, cats, survey · What happens: say, prefer, trust · To what, where: it, most · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 47 «The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines» 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: ★★★ «8 out of 10 owners said their cats preferred it».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
5	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 owners	nummod
6	out	out	ADP	_	8 10	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 10	case
8	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 8	nmod
9	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 cats	nmod:poss
12	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 preferred	nsubj
13	preferred	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 preferred	obj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 preferred	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	★						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	prefer in a quote	past	owners's cats	it					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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: Which survey would you trust most?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 survey	det
2	survey	survey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trust	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 trust	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 trust	nsubj
5	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 trust	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 trust	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	would	which survey	most					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme

The options

Option 1

1 out of 1 owner, the boss of the company

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	5 owner	case
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 owner	case
4	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 owner	nummod
5	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 1	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 boss	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boss	det
8	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 owner	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 company	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 company	det
11	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boss	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

8 out of 10 owners chosen by the company that sells it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 owners	nummod
2	out	out	ADP	_	4 10	case
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 10	case
4	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 8	nmod
5	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 owners	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 company	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 company	det
9	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chosen	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 sells	nsubj
11	sells	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 company	acl:relcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sells	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	participle		8 owners not said here				by the company	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sell	present	the company	company					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

4 out of 5 owners who work at the cat food factory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	5 owners	case
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 owners	case
4	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 owners	nummod
5	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 4	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 work	nsubj
7	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 owners	acl:relcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	12 factory	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 factory	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 food	compound
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 factory	compound
12	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	5 owners					at the food factory	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at factory=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

800 out of 1,000 owners asked by a group that doesn't sell cat food

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	800	800	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	5 owners	case
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 owners	case
4	1,000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 owners	nummod
5	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 800	nmod
6	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 owners	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 group	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 group	det
9	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asked	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 sell	nsubj
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sell	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 sell	advmod
13	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 group	acl:relcl
14	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 food	compound
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	participle		1,000 owners not said here				by a group	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not sell	present · do-support	a group	cat food					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme

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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