Test 5 · ★★★ · Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★
"We dropped the toast twice and it landed butter down both times, so it's ALWAYS butter down." What's the problem?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: We, toast, problem · What happens: drop down, land down, be · To what, where: toast, butter
This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 37 «Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★» 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: "We dropped the toast twice and it landed butter down both times, so it's ALWAYS butter down."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dropped | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 dropped | nsubj |
| 3 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 toast | det |
| 5 | toast | toast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | obj |
| 6 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 dropped | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 landed | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 landed | nsubj |
| 9 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dropped | conj |
| 10 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 landed | obj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 landed | compound:prt |
| 12 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 times | det |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 landed | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 butter | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 butter | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 butter | nsubj |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 butter | cop |
| 18 | ALWAYS | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 butter | advmod |
| 19 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | parataxis |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 dropped | compound:prt |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dropped | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dropped | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop down in a quote | past | We | the toast | twice property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toast=Theme | |||
| 2 | land down in a quote | past | toast | butter | time | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme butter=Destination | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | toast | butter | always property | 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 problem?
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 | 4 problem | det |
| 4 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the problem | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Butter makes toast land the right way up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | toast | toast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 land | obj |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 land | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Butter | toast | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | land | infinitive | toast not said here | the right way | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme way=Destination |
Option 2
Nothing, two drops prove it for ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 prove | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 drops | nummod |
| 4 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 prove | nsubj |
| 5 | prove | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 prove | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 ever | case |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 prove | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | present | Nothing | it | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3
The toast was the wrong kind of bread
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 toast | det |
| 2 | toast | toast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kind | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kind | det |
| 5 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kind | amod |
| 6 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 bread | case |
| 8 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the toast | the wrong kind | of bread | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Two drops are far too few
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 drops | nummod |
| 2 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 few | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 few | cop |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 few | advmod |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 few | advmod |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Two drops | far, few property | tree rules |
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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