Test 4 · ★★ · Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests

"bloody toast landed butter down AGAIN, it always does" What's true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: bloody toast, toast · What happens: land down, do, be · To what, where: butter

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» 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	_	4 landed	punct
2	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 toast	amod
3	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 landed	nsubj
4	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 landed	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 landed	compound:prt
7	AGAIN	again	ADV	_	4 landed	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 does	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 does	nsubj
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 does	advmod
11	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 landed	conj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 true	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 true	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 true	cop
15	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 does	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 landed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	land down in a quote	past	bloody toast	butter	again		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme butter=Destination
2	do in a quote	present	toast			always property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present				true 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.

The options

Option 1

Toast is magnetic on the buttered side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 magnetic	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 magnetic	cop
3	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 side	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 side	det
6	buttered	butter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 side	amod
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 magnetic	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Toast			the buttered side		magnetic property	tree rules
2	butter	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It never really happens, you imagine it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 happens	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 happens	advmod
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 happens	advmod
4	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 imagine	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 happens	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 imagine	nsubj
7	imagine	imagine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 imagine	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not happen	present	It						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	imagine	present	you	it					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

From table height it often does, because it turns about half a turn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 height	case
2	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 height	compound
3	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 does	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 does	nsubj
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 does	advmod
6	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 turns	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 turns	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 turns	nsubj
10	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 does	conj
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 half	advmod
12	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	14 turn	det:predet
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 turn	det
14	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turns	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	height			table height		often property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	turn about	present	height	half turn					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme turn=Result

Option 4

It's pure bad luck, there's no reason at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 luck	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 luck	cop
3	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 luck	amod
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 luck	amod
5	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 's	punct
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 's	expl
8	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 luck	parataxis
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 reason	det
10	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 's	nsubj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 reason	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	pure bad luck					tree rules
2	be	present	no reason at all			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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