Test 4 · ★★ · Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet
"my grandad says dogs are banned in flats next yr, so it's true innit" — he cannot say where he read it. Which pile?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: grandad, it · What happens: say, ban, be, not say, read · To what, where: dogs, flats, true innit, innit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★★ 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: "my grandad says dogs are banned in flats next yr, so it's true innit" — he cannot say where he read it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 grandad | nmod:poss |
| 3 | grandad | grandad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 banned | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 banned | aux:pass |
| 7 | banned | ban | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 says | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 flats | case |
| 9 | flats | flat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 banned | obl |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 yr | amod |
| 11 | yr | year | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 7 banned | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 innit | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 innit | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 innit | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 innit | cop |
| 16 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 innit | amod |
| 17 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | ccomp |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 innit | punct |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 say | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 say | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 say | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 say | advmod |
| 23 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 says | conj |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 read | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 read | nsubj |
| 26 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 say | ccomp |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 read | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | my grandad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | ban in a quote | present · passive | dogs | flats | year | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | it | true innit | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not say speech: assert | can | grandad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | read | past | grandad | innit | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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 pile?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 pile | det |
| 2 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 pile | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Not sure yet
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 | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 2 sure | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
True
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A joke
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 joke | det |
| 2 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
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.
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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