Test 7 · ★★★ · Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★

"teacher said the poem about Paul Revere proves what he shouted lol" What is the best reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, poem · What happens: say, prove, shout, be · To what, where: best reply · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 poem	det
5	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 proves	nsubj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 Paul	case
7	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 poem	nmod
8	Revere	Revere	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Paul	flat
9	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 shouted	obj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 shouted	nsubj
12	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 proves	ccomp
13	lol	lol	INTJ	_	19 reply	discourse
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 reply	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 reply	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 reply	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 reply	det
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 reply	amod
19	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shouted	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	teacher		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	prove in a quote	present	the poem about Paul		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	shout speech: express in a quote	past	poem		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4	be speech: assert	present		the best reply	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Paul Revere wrote the poem himself at the time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	nsubj
2	Revere	Revere	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Paul	flat
3	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 poem	det
5	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	obj
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	5 poem	appos
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	Paul	the poem			time		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme

Option 2

A poem is always the best kind of proof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 poem	det
2	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kind	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kind	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 kind	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kind	det
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 kind	amod
7	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 proof	case
9	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a poem	the best kind				of proof; always property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The poem came 85 years later, so it's a story, not evidence

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 poem	det
2	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	85	85	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 later	obl:unmarked
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 came	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 story	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 story	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 story	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 story	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 story	det
12	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 evidence	punct
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 evidence	advmod
15	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 story	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the poem					late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	poem	a story and evidence					tree rules

Option 4

Poems can only be written about true things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 written	nsubj:pass
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 written	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 written	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 written	aux:pass
5	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 things	case
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 things	amod
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 written	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	can · passive		Poems				about true things	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient about thing=Topic

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