Test 9 · ★ · Wants and needs
Mila says "I need a new case" but the old one isn't broken, "it's just ugly." What should she call it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mila, case · What happens: say, need, not break, be, call · To what, where: new case, old one, case · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 7 «Wants and needs» 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: Mila says "I need a new case" but the old one isn't broken, "it's just ugly."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mila | Mila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 need | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 need | nsubj |
| 5 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 case | det |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 case | amod |
| 8 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 need | obj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 need | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 broken | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | amod |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 broken | aux:pass |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 broken | advmod |
| 16 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 says | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ugly | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 ugly | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ugly | nsubj |
| 20 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 ugly | cop |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 ugly | advmod |
| 22 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 broken | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 broken | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 broken | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Mila | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | need in a quote | present | Mila | a new case | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot case=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not break | present · passive | the old one | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | case | ugly property | 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 should she call it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 call | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 call | nsubj |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 call | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | should | Mila | case | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme it=Result |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A need
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 need | det |
| 2 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A basic need
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 need | det |
| 2 | basic | basic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 need | amod |
| 3 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A want
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 want | det |
| 2 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
An emergency
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 emergency | det |
| 2 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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