Test 11 · ★★ · Friends who cling to a legend
Amelia counts who knows more facts. What does she forget?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Amelia · What happens: count, know, forget · To what, where: more facts
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 31 «Friends who cling to a legend» 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: Amelia counts who knows more facts.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amelia | Amelia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 counts | nsubj |
| 2 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 knows | nsubj |
| 4 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 counts | ccomp |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 facts | amod |
| 6 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 knows | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 counts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present | Amelia | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know | present | more facts | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fact=Stimulus |
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 she forget?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 forget | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 forget | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 forget | nsubj |
| 4 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 forget | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | present · do-support | Amelia | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Facts stop being true once they are shared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stop | nsubj |
| 2 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 true | cop |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stop | xcomp |
| 5 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 8 shared | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 shared | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 shared | aux:pass |
| 8 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stop | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | Facts | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | Facts not said here | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | share | present · passive | Facts = fact | tree rules |
Option 2
Only grown-ups are able to know real facts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 ups | advmod |
| 2 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ups | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 grown | punct |
| 4 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 able | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 able | cop |
| 6 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 know | mark |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | xcomp |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 facts | amod |
| 10 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 know | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | grown ups | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | to-infinitive | grown ups not said here | real facts | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fact=Stimulus |
Option 3
Facts are only really meant for teachers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 meant | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 meant | aux:pass |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 meant | advmod |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 meant | advmod |
| 5 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 teachers | case |
| 7 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 meant | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · passive | Facts | for teachers | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for teacher=Attribute |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Facts are for sharing, not scoring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sharing | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sharing | cop |
| 3 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 sharing | mark |
| 4 | sharing | share | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 scoring | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 scoring | advmod |
| 7 | scoring | score | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sharing | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Facts | share property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not score | gerund | Facts not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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