Test 5 · ★★ · Lenses and eyes
Your grandad can read the bus number far away but needs glasses for his book. What is he?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grandad · What happens: read, need, be · To what, where: bus number, glasses
This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 22 «Lenses and eyes» of the physics 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 grandad can read the bus number far away but needs glasses for his book.
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 grandad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | grandad | grandad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 read | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 read | aux |
| 4 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 number | det |
| 6 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 number | compound |
| 7 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 read | obj |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 away | advmod |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 read | advmod |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 needs | cc |
| 11 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 read | conj |
| 12 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 needs | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 book | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 book | nmod:poss |
| 15 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 needs | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 read | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | can | Your grandad | the bus number | away property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | |||
| 2 | need | present | Your grandad not said here | glasses | for grandad's book | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot glass=Theme |
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 is he?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | grandad | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Colour-blind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blind | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Colour | punct |
| 3 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Short-sighted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sighted | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Short | punct |
| 3 | sighted | sight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sight | participle | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Long-sighted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sighted | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Long | punct |
| 3 | sighted | sight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sight | participle | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
Night-blind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blind | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Night | punct |
| 3 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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