Test 10 · ★ · Swimming and cycling
"Hills are the worst, eh?" What helps Jack on hills?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hills · What happens: be, help · To what, where: Jack, hills
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 42 «Swimming and cycling» 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: "Hills are the worst, eh?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 worst | punct |
| 2 | Hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 worst | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 worst | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 worst | det |
| 5 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 eh | punct |
| 7 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 5 worst | discourse |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 worst | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 worst | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Hills | bad 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: What helps Jack on hills?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 helps | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 hills | case |
| 5 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 helps | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 helps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | Jack | hills | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Beneficiary |
The options
Option 1
Leaning far back off the saddle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leaning | lean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 back | advmod |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Leaning | advmod |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 saddle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 saddle | det |
| 6 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leaning | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lean | gerund | off the saddle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Pedalling in the hardest gear for more power
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pedalling | pedalling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 gear | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gear | det |
| 4 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 gear | amod |
| 5 | gear | gear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pedalling | nmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 power | case |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 power | amod |
| 8 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gear | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Using his gears and pedalling smoothly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 gears | nmod:poss |
| 3 | gears | gear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Using | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 pedalling | cc |
| 5 | pedalling | pedalling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gears | conj |
| 6 | smoothly | smoothly | ADV | _ | 1 Using | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | gerund | his gears and pedalling | smoothly property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gear=Patient |
Option 4
Stopping pedalling to rest on the climb
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | pedalling | pedall | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Stopping | xcomp |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 rest | mark |
| 4 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pedalling | xcomp |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 climb | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 climb | det |
| 7 | climb | climb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rest | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | gerund | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 2 | pedall | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | rest | to-infinitive | the climb | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on climb=Location |
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