Test 1 · ★ · Explorers, scientists and inventors
"einstein failed maths so school doesn't matter innit" What's the truth?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: einstein, school, innit · What happens: fail, not matter, be · To what, where: maths, innit, truth
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 20 «Explorers, scientists and inventors» 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 failed | punct |
| 2 | einstein | einstein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 failed | nsubj |
| 3 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | maths | math | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 failed | obj |
| 5 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 9 matter | mark |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 matter | nsubj |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 matter | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 matter | advmod |
| 9 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 failed | advcl |
| 10 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 matter | obj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 truth | punct |
| 12 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 truth | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 truth | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 truth | det |
| 15 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 innit | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 failed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail in a quote | past | einstein | maths | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent math=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not matter in a quote | present · do-support | school | innit and the truth | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | innit and the truth | the truth | 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.
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
He was brilliant at maths; the story is a myth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brilliant | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brilliant | cop |
| 3 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 maths | case |
| 5 | maths | math | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brilliant | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 myth | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 myth | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 myth | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 myth | det |
| 11 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brilliant | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | maths | brilliant property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the story | a myth | tree rules |
Option 2
He never went to school at all, so he couldn't fail any test
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 school | case |
| 5 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fail | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 fail | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fail | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 fail | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 fail | advmod |
| 13 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 test | det |
| 15 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fail | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past | He | all | to school | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | not fail | could | he | any test | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
He failed maths but nobody noticed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 failed | nsubj |
| 2 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | maths | math | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 failed | obj |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 noticed | cc |
| 5 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 noticed | nsubj |
| 6 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 failed | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | past | He | maths | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent math=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | notice | past | nobody | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
He failed maths and later became a doctor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 failed | nsubj |
| 2 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | maths | math | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 failed | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 became | cc |
| 5 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 became | advmod |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 failed | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 doctor | det |
| 8 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 became | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | past | He | maths | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent math=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | become | past | He not said here | a doctor | late property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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