Test 10 · ★★★ · Where did you read that? Checking sources
Jamie says printed books can't be wrong. Which example shows they can?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jamie, printed books, example · What happens: say, print, not be, show · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 28 «Where did you read that? Checking sources» 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: Jamie says printed books can't be wrong.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jamie | Jamie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 books | amod | |
| 4 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wrong | nsubj |
| 5 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 wrong | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 wrong | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wrong | cop |
| 8 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 says | ccomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Jamie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||||
| 3 | not is | can | printed books | wrong 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: Which example shows they can?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 example | det |
| 2 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 can | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 shows | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | which example | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
A dictionary with many words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dictionary | det |
| 2 | dictionary | dictionary | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 words | case |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 words | amod |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dictionary | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Old books listing nine planets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 books | amod |
| 2 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 listing | nsubj |
| 3 | listing | list | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 planets | nummod |
| 5 | planets | planet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 listing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | list | gerund | Old books | nine planets | tree rules |
Option 3
A book with a picture of Pluto
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 book | det |
| 2 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 picture | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 picture | det |
| 5 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 book | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Pluto | case |
| 7 | Pluto | Pluto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 picture | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A book with a hard cover
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 book | det |
| 2 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 cover | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cover | det |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cover | amod |
| 6 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 book | nmod |
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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