Test 10 · ★★ · Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Irel…
A clever puzzle: in an Australian seat, Ana has 40 first votes, Ben 35, Cal 25. Cal is knocked out and 20 of Cal's voters put Ben next, 5 put Ana. Who wins?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: clever puzzle, 20, 5 · What happens: have, knock out, put, win · To what, where: 40 first votes, Cal, Ben, Ana
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand» 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: A clever puzzle: in an Australian seat, Ana has 40 first votes, Ben 35, Cal 25.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 puzzle | det |
| 2 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 puzzle | amod |
| 3 | puzzle | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 has | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 puzzle | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 seat | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 seat | det |
| 7 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 seat | amod |
| 8 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 puzzle | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 puzzle | punct |
| 10 | Ana | Ana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 has | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 votes | nummod |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 votes | amod |
| 14 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 has | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ben | punct |
| 16 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 votes | appos |
| 17 | 35 | 35 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 Ben | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 25 | punct |
| 19 | Cal | Cal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 25 | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 Ben | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a clever puzzle in a Australian seat | 40 first votes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=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: Cal is knocked out and 20 of Cal's voters put Ben next, 5 put Ana.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cal | Cal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knocked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 knocked | aux:pass |
| 3 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 knocked | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 put | cc |
| 6 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 put | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 voters | case |
| 8 | Cal | Cal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 voters | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Cal | case |
| 10 | voters | voter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 20 | nmod |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knocked | conj |
| 12 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obj |
| 13 | next | next | ADV | _ | 11 put | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 15 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 put | nsubj |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 put | conj |
| 17 | Ana | Ana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knocked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock out | present · passive | Cal | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | put | past | 20 of Cal's voters | Ben | next property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ben=Goal | |||
| 3 | put | past | 5 | Ana | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ana=Goal |
Sentence 3: Who wins?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 wins | nsubj |
| 2 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 wins | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Cal, with 25
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cal | Cal | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 25 | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 25 | case |
| 4 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Cal | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Ben, with 55
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 55 | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 55 | case |
| 4 | 55 | 55 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Ben | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Nobody; it is a tie
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 tie | nsubj |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nobody | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tie | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tie | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tie | det |
| 6 | tie | tie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Nobody | a tie | tree rules |
Option 4
Ana, with 45 votes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ana | Ana | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 votes | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 votes | case |
| 4 | 45 | 45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 votes | nummod |
| 5 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ana | appos |
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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