Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Myths / How would we know? Asking experts and… / t5

Test 5 · ★★ · How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks

Raj's uncle refuses takeaway because of MSG. What does the evidence say?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: uncle, evidence · What happens: refuse, say · To what, where: takeaway · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: Raj's uncle refuses takeaway because of MSG.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Raj	Raj	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 uncle	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Raj	case
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 refuses	nsubj
4	refuses	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	takeaway	takeaway	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 refuses	obj
6	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	8 MSG	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 because	fixed
8	MSG	msg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 refuses	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 refuses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	present	Raj's uncle	takeaway				because MSG	vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent takeaway=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.

Sentence 2: What does the evidence say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 evidence	det
4	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the evidence						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

MSG is only dangerous in takeaways

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	MSG	msg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dangerous	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dangerous	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 dangerous	advmod
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 takeaways	case
6	takeaways	takeaway	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dangerous	obl

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

Option 2

Nobody has ever studied MSG

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 studied	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 studied	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 studied	advmod
4	studied	study	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	MSG	msg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 studied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	study	present · perfect · passive		Nobody			ever		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme msg=Attribute

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

It's safe for most people, and tomatoes have glutamate too

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	3 safe	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	cop
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 people	case
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 safe	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 have	cc
9	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	conj
11	glutamate	glutamate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj
12	too	too	ADV	_	10 have	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					for most people; safe property	tree rules
2	have	present	tomatoes	glutamate					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glutamate=Patient

Option 4

He's right, MSG makes everyone very ill

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 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 makes	punct
5	MSG	msg	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	nsubj
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	advcl
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 makes	obj
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 ill	advmod
9	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	make	present	MSG	everyone				ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everyone=Product

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/30-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks/t5/