Test 2 · The optician and glasses
Zak squints at the board but reads his book fine. What might he have?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Zak · What happens: squint, read, have · To what, where: book
This is test 2 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: Zak squints at the board but reads his book fine.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zak | Zak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 squints | nsubj |
| 2 | squints | squint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 board | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 board | det |
| 5 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 squints | obl |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 reads | cc |
| 7 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 squints | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 book | nmod:poss |
| 9 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reads | obj |
| 10 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 book | amod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 squints | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squint | present | Zak | at the board | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at board=Theme | ||||
| 2 | read | present | Zak not said here | Zak's book | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic |
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 might he have?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 have | obj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | might | Zak | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Short sight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sight | amod |
| 2 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Long sight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sight | amod |
| 2 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Colour blindness
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blindness | compound |
| 2 | blindness | blindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A cataract
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cataract | det |
| 2 | cataract | cataract | 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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