Test 11 · ★★★ · Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and bei…
Finn's mum laughs: "I once dreamt I was a pancake." What is she teaching him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, I · What happens: laugh, dreamt, be, teach · To what, where: pancake, Finn · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 27 «Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong» 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: Finn's mum laughs: "I once dreamt I was a pancake."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finn | Finn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Finn | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laughs | nsubj |
| 4 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 dreamt | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 dreamt | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 dreamt | nsubj |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 dreamt | advmod |
| 9 | dreamt | dreamt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughs | parataxis |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 pancake | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 pancake | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pancake | det |
| 13 | pancake | pancake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dreamt | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughs | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | Finn's mum | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | dreamt in a quote | past | I | once property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | I | a pancake | 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 is she teaching him?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 teaching | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 teaching | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 teaching | nsubj |
| 4 | teaching | teach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 teaching | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 teaching | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | present · progressive | mum | Finn | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient he=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
She is secretly a pancake in real life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pancake | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pancake | cop |
| 3 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 5 pancake | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pancake | det |
| 5 | pancake | pancake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 life | case |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 life | amod |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pancake | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | She | a pancake | real life | secretly property | tree rules |
Option 2
He should worry more about his dreams
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 worry | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 worry | aux |
| 3 | worry | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 worry | obj |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 dreams | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 more | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | worry | should | He | more | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus more=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | dream | his = he | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
Dreams about food are the only safe dreams
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dreams | nsubj |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 3 food | case |
| 3 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dreams | nmod |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dreams | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dreams | det |
| 6 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dreams | amod |
| 7 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dreams | amod |
| 8 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Dreams about food | the only safe dreams | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Dreams are often weird and don't make you bad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 weird | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 weird | cop |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 weird | advmod |
| 4 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 make | cc |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 make | advmod |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 weird | conj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Dreams | often, weird property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not make | present · do-support | Dreams not said here | you | bad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
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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