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Test 9 · ★★ · Weather, lightning and storms

Lola catches two tiny snow crystals that look exactly alike and says her card lied. What do you say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lola, two tiny snow crystals, card, you · What happens: catch, look, say, lie · To what, where: two tiny snow crystals · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 15 «Weather, lightning and storms» of the myths 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: Lola catches two tiny snow crystals that look exactly alike and says her card lied.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lola	Lola	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 catches	nsubj
2	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 crystals	nummod
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crystals	amod
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crystals	compound
6	crystals	crystal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 catches	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 look	nsubj
8	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 crystals	acl:relcl
9	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	10 alike	advmod
10	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 look	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 says	cc
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 catches	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 card	nmod:poss
14	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lied	nsubj
15	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 says	ccomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 catches	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present	Lola	two tiny snow crystals					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crystal=Theme
2	look	present	two tiny snow crystals					alike property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	present	Lola not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	lie	past	Lola's card						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 do you say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	you						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

One of them must be plastic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 plastic	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 plastic	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 plastic	cop
6	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	One of them					plastic property	tree rules

Option 2

Snowflakes are always identical anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snowflakes	snowflake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 identical	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 identical	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 identical	advmod
4	identical	identical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 identical	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Snowflakes					always, anyway, identical property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Simple tiny crystals can match; big complex flakes almost never do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crystals	amod
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crystals	amod
3	crystals	crystal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 match	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 match	aux
5	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 flakes	punct
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flakes	amod
8	complex	complex	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flakes	compound
9	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 match	obj
10	almost	almost	ADV	_	12 do	advmod
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 do	advmod
12	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 match	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	match	can	Simple tiny crystals	big complex flakes					vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flake=Patient
2	not do	present	Simple tiny crystals not said here					almost property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Her magnifier must be broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 magnifier	nmod:poss
2	magnifier	magnifier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broken	nsubj:pass
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 broken	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 broken	aux:pass
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	must · passive		Her magnifier					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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