Test 4 · ★★★ · I was wrong: changing your mind
Your friend shows you an encyclopaedia: whales are mammals. What's the best reply?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, whales, best reply · What happens: show, be · To what, where: encyclopaedia, you, mammals
This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 35 «I was wrong: changing your mind» 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: Your friend shows you an encyclopaedia: whales are mammals.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 shows | iobj |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 encyclopaedia | det |
| 6 | encyclopaedia | encyclopaedia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 mammals | punct |
| 8 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 mammals | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 mammals | cop |
| 10 | mammals | mammal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shows | parataxis |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Your friend | a encyclopaedia | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient encyclopaedia=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a | present | whales | mammals | 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.
Sentence 2: What's the best reply?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 reply | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 reply | amod |
| 5 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the best reply | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Whales are fish on Tuesdays
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fish | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fish | cop |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 Tuesdays | case |
| 5 | Tuesdays | Tuesday | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 fish | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Whales | fish | tuesday | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Oh, I didn't know that, thanks!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 know | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 know | advmod |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 thanks | mark |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thanks | punct |
| 9 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | ccomp |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
You only found that to show off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 found | advmod |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 show | mark |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 show | mark |
| 6 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 found | xcomp |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 show | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | You | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | show off | to-infinitive | You not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
That book is wrong, they swim
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 book | det |
| 2 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrong | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrong | cop |
| 4 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 swim | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 swim | nsubj |
| 7 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrong | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that book | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swim | present | they | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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