Test 11 · ★★ · How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks
Which source is best to check a giant squid photo?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: source · What happens: be, check · To what, where: giant squid photo
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 30 «How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks» 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 source | det |
| 2 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 best | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 best | cop |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 check | mark |
| 6 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 best | csubj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 photo | det |
| 8 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 photo | amod |
| 9 | squid | squid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 photo | compound |
| 10 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 check | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 best | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which source | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | check | to-infinitive | a giant squid photo | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Theme |
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
A meme page with lots of followers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 page | det |
| 2 | meme | meme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 page | compound |
| 3 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 lots | case |
| 5 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 page | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 followers | case |
| 7 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lots | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A comment under the post
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 comment | det |
| 2 | comment | comment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 post | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 post | det |
| 5 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comment | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A friend who saw it shared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 friend | det |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shared | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 friend | acl:relcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | a friend | friend | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | share | participle | a friend | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A real news outlet or a museum
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 outlet | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 outlet | amod |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 outlet | compound |
| 4 | outlet | outlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 museum | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 museum | det |
| 7 | museum | museum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 outlet | conj |
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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