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Test 5 · ★★ · When the teacher gets it wrong

Mr Grant says the old saying about lightning. Which fact with a number helps most?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mr, fact · What happens: say, help · To what, where: old saying · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 33 «When the teacher gets it wrong» 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: Mr Grant says the old saying about lightning.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
2	Grant	Grant	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mr	flat
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 saying	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 saying	amod
6	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 lightning	case
8	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saying	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mr	the old saying				about lightning	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent saying=Topic

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 fact with a number helps most?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 fact	det
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 helps	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 number	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 number	det
5	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fact	nmod
6	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 helps	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 helps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	which fact with a number						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Thunder comes after lightning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	after	after	ADP	_	4 lightning	case
4	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Thunder				after lightning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Lightning is very bright and hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bright	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bright	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 bright	advmod
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hot	cc
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bright	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Lightning					bright property	tree rules
2	be		Lightning not said here						tree rules

Option 3

Most storms happen in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 storms	amod
2	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	nsubj
3	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 summer	case
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	Most storms				summer		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The Empire State Building is hit about 20 times a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Building	det
2	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 State	compound
3	State	State	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Building	compound
4	Building	Building	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hit	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hit	aux:pass
6	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 20	advmod
8	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 times	nummod
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hit	obl:unmarked
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 year	det
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 times	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	present · passive		the State Building			time		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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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