Test 2 · ★ · The Olympics and Paralympics
Liam's mate: «Tokyo 2020 was cancelled, so it was». What really happened?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: cancel, be, happen · To what, where: mate
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 62 «The Olympics and Paralympics» 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: Liam's mate: «Tokyo 2020 was cancelled, so it was».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liam | Liam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Liam | case |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cancelled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 cancelled | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 cancelled | punct |
| 6 | Tokyo | Tokyo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cancelled | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | 2020 | 2020 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 Tokyo | flat |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cancelled | aux:pass |
| 9 | cancelled | cancel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 was | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 was | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 was | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cancelled | ccomp |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 was | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cancelled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cancel in a quote | past · passive | Liam's mate | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be in a quote | past | mate | 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: What really happened?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Moved to London in 2020
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 London | case |
| 3 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Moved | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 2020 | case |
| 5 | 2020 | 2020 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Moved | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | participle | London | 2020 | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to london=Source in 2020=Trajectory |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Postponed a year, held mostly without crowds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Postponed | postpone | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Postponed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 held | punct |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Postponed | conj |
| 6 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 5 held | advmod |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 8 crowds | case |
| 8 | crowds | crowd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 held | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | postpone | participle | year | vn delay-53.3-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hold | participle | without crowds; mostly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Held in 2019 instead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 2019 | case |
| 3 | 2019 | 2019 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Held | obl |
| 4 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 1 Held | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | participle | 2019 | instead property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2019=Location |
Option 4
Cancelled and never held
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cancelled | cancel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 held | cc |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 held | advmod |
| 4 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Cancelled | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cancel | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | not hold | participle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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