Test 10 · ★★ · Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E
Mate dials 999 for a laugh. Best reply?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: dial · To what, where: 999
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 26 «Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E» of the medicine 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: Mate dials 999 for a laugh.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dials | nsubj |
| 2 | dials | dial | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 999 | 999 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 dials | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 laugh | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 laugh | det |
| 6 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dials | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dials | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dial | present | Mate | 999 | for a laugh | 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: Best reply?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 reply | amod |
| 2 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 reply | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Stop, it takes help away from people in danger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 help | nsubj |
| 4 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | cop |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stop | conj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 help | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 help | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 danger | case |
| 10 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 people | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | imperative | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | present | it | from people in danger; away, help property | tree rules |
Option 2
Only bad if you swear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 bad | advmod |
| 2 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 swear | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 swear | nsubj |
| 5 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 bad | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | present | you | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
It's free, so fine
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 free | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 free | cop |
| 3 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fine | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 fine | advmod |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 free | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | tree rules |
Option 4
Do it again, it's funny and nobody ever finds out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Do | obj |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Do | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 funny | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 funny | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 funny | cop |
| 7 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Do | parataxis |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 finds | cc |
| 9 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 finds | nsubj |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 finds | advmod |
| 11 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 funny | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 finds | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | it | again | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | present | it | funny property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find out | present | nobody | ever | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
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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