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Test 8 · ★ · Explorers, scientists and inventors

Martha says Marie Curie discovered radioactivity alone. Which is fairer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Martha, Marie · What happens: say, discover, be · To what, where: radioactivity · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Martha says Marie Curie discovered radioactivity alone.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Martha	Martha	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Marie	Marie	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 discovered	nsubj
4	Curie	Curie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Marie	flat
5	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	radioactivity	radioactivity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 discovered	obj
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 discovered	advmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Martha						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	discover	past	Marie	radioactivity				alone property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent radioactivity=Topic

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: Which is fairer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 fairer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fairer	cop
3	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fairer	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Becquerel found it; she named it and with Pierre found radium and polonium

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Becquerel	becquerel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 named	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 named	nsubj
6	named	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	parataxis
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 named	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 found	cc
9	with	with	SCONJ	_	11 found	mark
10	Pierre	Pierre	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 found	nsubj
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 named	conj
12	radium	radium	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 polonium	cc
14	polonium	polonium	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 radium	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Becquerel	it					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	name	past	Becquerel	it					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	find	past	Pierre	radium and polonium					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent radium=Topic

Option 2

Pierre Curie did all the work, and she only helped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pierre	Pierre	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	Curie	Curie	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Pierre	flat
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 work	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 work	det
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 helped	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 helped	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 helped	nsubj
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 helped	advmod
11	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Pierre	all work					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
2	help	past	Pierre						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Einstein discovered it, and she wrote about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Einstein	Einstein	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 discovered	nsubj
2	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 discovered	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wrote	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wrote	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wrote	nsubj
7	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 discovered	conj
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wrote	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	discover	past	Einstein	it					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	write	past	Einstein					about it	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 4

She discovered it alone and nobody else worked on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 discovered	nsubj
2	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 discovered	obj
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 discovered	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 worked	cc
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 worked	nsubj
7	else	else	ADV	_	6 nobody	advmod
8	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 discovered	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 worked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	discover	past	She	it				alone property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	work	past	nobody					on it	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on it=Theme

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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