Test 8 · ★ · The Olympics and Paralympics
A cartoon says «Paralympians aren't proper athletes». What's true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, Paralympians · What happens: say, not be, be · To what, where: proper athletes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ 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: A cartoon says «Paralympians aren't proper athletes».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 athletes | punct |
| 5 | Paralympians | Paralympian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 athletes | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 athletes | cop |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 athletes | advmod |
| 8 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 athletes | amod |
| 9 | athletes | athlete | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 says | ccomp |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 athletes | punct |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a cartoon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | Paralympians | proper athletes | 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's true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
They train only on weekends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 train | nsubj |
| 2 | train | train | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 weekends | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 weekends | case |
| 5 | weekends | weekend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 train | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | train | present | They | weekend | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
They train full time for years like Olympians
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 train | nsubj |
| 2 | train | train | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 train | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 train | obl |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 Olympians | case |
| 8 | Olympians | olympian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 years | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | train | present | They | time; year | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Their races aren't timed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 races | nmod:poss |
| 2 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 timed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 timed | aux:pass |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 timed | advmod |
| 5 | timed | time | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not time | present · passive | Their races | vn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | race | Their = they | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
They don't have coaches
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | coaches | coach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | present · do-support | They | coaches | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coach=Patient |
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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