Test 1 · ★ · Girls' and boys' teams
«boys are always faster, that's just facts innit». What's true at age 9?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boys, that · What happens: be · To what, where: facts innit, age
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 69 «Girls' and boys' teams» 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: «boys are always faster, that's just facts innit».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 faster | punct |
| 2 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 faster | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 faster | cop |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 faster | advmod |
| 5 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 innit | punct |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 innit | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 innit | cop |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 innit | advmod |
| 10 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 innit | compound |
| 11 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 faster | parataxis |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 innit | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 faster | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | boys | always, fast property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | that | facts innit | 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 at age 9?
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 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 age | case |
| 5 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 true | obl |
| 6 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 age | flat |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | at age | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Little difference; practice matters most
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 difference | amod |
| 2 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 difference | punct |
| 4 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 matters | nsubj |
| 5 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 difference | acl:relcl |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 matters | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter | present | practice | Little difference not said here | tree rules |
Option 2
Boys are always faster at any age, it's just nature
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 faster | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 faster | cop |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 faster | advmod |
| 4 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 nature | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 age | case |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 age | det |
| 7 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 faster | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 faster | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 nature | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 nature | cop |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 nature | advmod |
| 12 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Boys | at any age | always, fast property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | age | nature | tree rules |
Option 3
Boys are faster but only on grass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 faster | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 faster | cop |
| 3 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 grass | cc |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 grass | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 grass | case |
| 7 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 faster | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Boys | fast property | tree rules |
Option 4
Girls are faster only at swimming
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 swimming | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 swimming | cop |
| 3 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 only | advmod |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 swimming | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 swimming | case |
| 6 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Girls | swimming | tree rules |
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