Test 3 · ★★★ · Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★
Jess, from Newcastle: "Howay, a wasp stung us twice, it should be deed after the first one, man." What's true?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jess · What happens: sting, dee, be · To what, where: us, wasp
This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 36 «Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★» 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: Jess, from Newcastle: "Howay, a wasp stung us twice, it should be deed after the first one, man."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jess | Jess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 stung | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Newcastle | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Newcastle | case |
| 4 | Newcastle | Newcastle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Jess | conj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Howay | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Howay | punct |
| 7 | Howay | Howay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Jess | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stung | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wasp | det |
| 10 | wasp | wasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stung | nsubj |
| 11 | stung | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 stung | obj |
| 13 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 stung | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 deed | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 deed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 deed | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 deed | aux:pass |
| 18 | deed | dee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 stung | conj |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 one | det |
| 21 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 one | amod |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 deed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 man | punct |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 one | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stung | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 stung | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting in a quote | past | Jess and Newcastle and Howay | us | twice property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | dee in a quote | should · passive | wasp | after the first one and man | 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 true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
It must have been two wasps then
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 | 6 wasps | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 wasps | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wasps | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 wasps | cop |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 wasps | nummod |
| 6 | wasps | wasp | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 wasps | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must · perfect | It | two wasps | then | tree rules |
Option 2
She was stung by a honeybee twice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stung | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stung | aux:pass |
| 3 | stung | sting | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 honeybee | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 honeybee | det |
| 6 | honeybee | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stung | obl |
| 7 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 stung | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting | past · passive | a honeybee | She | twice property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Wasps can sting more than once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wasps | wasp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sting | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sting | aux |
| 3 | sting | sting | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 3 sting | obj |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 4 more | fixed |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 sting | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting | can | Wasps | more | once property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus more=Experiencer |
Option 4
Every insect dies after its first sting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 insect | det |
| 2 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dies | nsubj |
| 3 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 sting | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sting | nmod:poss |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 sting | amod |
| 7 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dies | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | every insect | after insect's first sting | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | sting | insect | nom sting «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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