Test 11 · ★★ · Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet
The teacher says, "Ireland has a president." Which card?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, Ireland · What happens: say, have · To what, where: president · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 36 «Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet» of the politics 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: The teacher says, "Ireland has a president."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
| 6 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 has | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 president | det |
| 9 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the teacher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | Ireland | a president | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent president=Patient |
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: Which card?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 card | det |
| 2 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 card | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
FALSE
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FALSE | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
JOKE
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JOKE | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
TRUE
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TRUE | true | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
NOT SURE
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NOT | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 SURE | advmod |
| 2 | SURE | sure | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sure | imperative | you not said here | 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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