Test 5 · ★★ · The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightm…
Noah's teacher shows the video of the playground fight and it's "more mixed". What does this teach?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, this · What happens: show, be, teach · To what, where: video · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 26 «The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares» of the reflection 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: Noah's teacher shows the video of the playground fight and it's "more mixed".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Noah | case |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shows | nsubj |
| 4 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 video | det |
| 6 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shows | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fight | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fight | det |
| 9 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fight | compound |
| 10 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 video | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 mixed | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 mixed | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 mixed | cop |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 mixed | punct |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 mixed | advmod |
| 16 | mixed | mixed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shows | conj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 mixed | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Noah's teacher | the video of the playground fight | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent video=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | teacher | mixed property | tree rules |
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 does this teach?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 teach | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 teach | aux |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 teach | nsubj |
| 4 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 teach | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | present · do-support | this | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Videos always lie about what happened
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Videos | video | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lie | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 lie | advmod |
| 3 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 6 happened | mark |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lie | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | Videos | always property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Two people can honestly remember one moment differently
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 people | nummod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 remember | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 remember | aux |
| 4 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 5 remember | advmod |
| 5 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 moment | nummod |
| 7 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remember | obj |
| 8 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 5 remember | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | can | Two people | moment | differently, honestly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Noah was lying all along
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lying | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lying | aux |
| 3 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 3 lying | advmod |
| 5 | along | along | ADV | _ | 3 lying | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · progressive | Noah | all, along property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Memories are always perfect, so the video must be wrong
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 perfect | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 perfect | cop |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 perfect | advmod |
| 4 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wrong | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 wrong | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 video | det |
| 8 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wrong | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 wrong | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wrong | cop |
| 11 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 perfect | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Memories | always, perfect property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | must | the video | wrong property | 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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