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Test 10 · ★ · Small creatures and creepy-crawlies

Freddie and Kit argue: Freddie says flies live a day, Kit says weeks. How could they settle it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Freddie, flies, Kit · What happens: argue, say, live, settle · To what, where: it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 9 «Small creatures and creepy-crawlies» 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: Freddie and Kit argue: Freddie says flies live a day, Kit says weeks.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freddie	Freddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 argue	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Kit	cc
3	Kit	Kit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Freddie	conj
4	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
6	Freddie	Freddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 argue	ccomp
8	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 live	nsubj
9	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 live	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
13	Kit	Kit	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 says	nsubj
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	conj
15	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 says	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 argue	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	present	Freddie and Kit						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	Freddie						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	live	present	flies				day		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present	Kit				week		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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: How could they settle it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 settle	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 settle	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 settle	nsubj
4	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 settle	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 settle	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	settle	could	flies = fly	it					vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Toss a coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toss	toss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 coin	det
3	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Toss	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Look up house flies and mayflies separately in an encyclopaedia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Look	compound:prt
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flies	compound
4	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Look	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 mayflies	cc
6	mayflies	mayfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flies	conj
7	separately	separately	ADV	_	1 Look	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 encyclopaedia	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 encyclopaedia	det
10	encyclopaedia	encyclopaedia	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look up	imperative	you not said here	house flies and mayflies		a encyclopaedia		separately property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fly=Attribute

Option 3

Whoever shouts loudest wins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 shouts	nsubj
2	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 wins	amod
4	wins	win	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shouts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	Whoever	loudest wins					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent win=Topic

Option 4

Catch a fly and keep it in a jar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fly	det
3	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Catch	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 keep	cc
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Catch	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 keep	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 jar	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 jar	det
9	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	imperative	you not said here	a fly					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here	fly		a jar			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in jar=Location

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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