Test 10 · The optician and glasses
Sasha wants to know if her glasses are forever. Best answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sasha, glasses · What happens: want, know, be
This is test 10 of lesson 27 «The optician and glasses» 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: Sasha wants to know if her glasses are forever.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sasha | Sasha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 know | mark |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wants | xcomp |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 forever | mark |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 glasses | nmod:poss |
| 7 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 forever | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 forever | cop |
| 9 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 4 know | ccomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Sasha | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | Sasha not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | Sasha's glasses | forever property | 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 answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 answer | amod |
| 2 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 answer | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Only if she eats carrots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 eats | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 eats | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 eats | nsubj |
| 4 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | carrots | carrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eats | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | she | carrots | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carrot=Patient |
Option 2
No, eyes fix by age 10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 fix | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fix | punct |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fix | nsubj |
| 4 | fix | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 age | case |
| 6 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fix | obl |
| 7 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 fix | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | present | eyes | 10 | by age | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
Yes, forever the same
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 same | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 5 same | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 same | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Prescriptions change as she grows, so not always the same ones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prescriptions | prescription | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 change | nsubj |
| 2 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 grows | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 grows | nsubj |
| 5 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 change | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ones | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 ones | advmod |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 ones | advmod |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 ones | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ones | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ones | amod |
| 12 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 change | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | Prescriptions | the same ones | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | she | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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