Test 1 · Changing-room germs
Aoife: «Mam says I can't go to swimming, but sure it's grand, isn't it?» Who's closer to right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Aoife · What happens: say, not go, be, not be, right · To what, where: swimming · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 of lesson 59 «Changing-room germs» 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: Aoife: «Mam says I can't go to swimming, but sure it's grand, isn't it?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aoife | aoife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 4 | Mam | Mam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 7 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 go | advmod |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 says | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 swimming | case |
| 11 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sure | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 sure | cc |
| 14 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 says | ccomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 grand | nsubj |
| 16 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 grand | cop |
| 17 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sure | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 is | punct |
| 19 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sure | conj |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 is | advmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sure | nsubj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask in a quote | present | Aoife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not go in a quote | can | Aoife | swimming | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to swimming=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Aoife | grand property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not be in a quote | present | Aoife not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: Who's closer to right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 closer | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 closer | cop |
| 3 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 right | mark |
| 5 | right | right | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 closer | xcomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 closer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | close property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | right | to-infinitive | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Mam, the pool will close
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mam | Mam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 close | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mam | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pool | det |
| 4 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 close | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 close | aux |
| 6 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | future | the pool | Mam vocative | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Aoife, if she covers the verruca
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aoife | Aoife | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 covers | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 covers | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 covers | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 covers | nsubj |
| 5 | covers | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 verruca | det |
| 7 | verruca | verruca | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covers | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | present | Aoife | the verruca | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent verruca=Destination |
Option 3
Neither, she must cut it out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 5 cut | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cut | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 cut | aux |
| 5 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cut | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 cut | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut out | must | she | it | neither property | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality |
Option 4
Mam, because verrucas mean no pool ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mam | Mam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 mean | mark |
| 4 | verrucas | verruca | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 5 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 pool | det |
| 7 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mean | obj |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 mean | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Mam | no pool | ever | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pool=Topic |
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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