Test 3 · ★ · Unemployment: when jobs are lost
Uncle Dave sighs, "Applied to 20, heard back from 2 — no, 3 actually." How many didn't reply?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Uncle Dave · What happens: sigh, apply, hear back, not reply · To what, where: 3, 2, many
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 35 «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» of the money 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: Uncle Dave sighs, "Applied to 20, heard back from 2 — no, 3 actually."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Dave | compound |
| 2 | Dave | Dave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sighs | nsubj |
| 3 | sighs | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Applied | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Applied | punct |
| 6 | Applied | apply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sighs | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 20 | case |
| 8 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 Applied | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Applied | conj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 heard | advmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 2 | case |
| 13 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 heard | obl |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 3 | punct |
| 15 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 3 | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 no | punct |
| 17 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 sighs | obl |
| 18 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 17 3 | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sighs | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sighs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | present | Uncle Dave | 3 | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | apply in a quote | participle | Uncle Dave not said here | to 20 | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hear back in a quote | past | Uncle Dave not said here | 2 | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from 2=Source |
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: How many didn't reply?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reply | obj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reply | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 reply | advmod |
| 5 | reply | reply | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 reply | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reply speech: assert | past · do-support | many | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent many=Topic |
The options
Option 1
18
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
17
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
23
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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