Test 2 · ★★★ · Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and bei…
Kai's dad says, "Thousands of planes land safely every single day." Why does that help?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dad, Thousands, that · What happens: say, land, help · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★★★ 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: Kai's dad says, "Thousands of planes land safely every single day."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Kai | case |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 land | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 land | punct |
| 7 | Thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 land | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 planes | case |
| 9 | planes | plane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Thousands | nmod |
| 10 | land | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 11 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 10 land | advmod |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 day | det |
| 13 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 day | amod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 land | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Kai's dad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | land in a quote | present | Thousands of planes | day | safely property | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: Why does that help?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 help | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 help | nsubj |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present · do-support | that | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It shows crashes are very rare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shows | nsubj |
| 2 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | crashes | crash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rare | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rare | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 rare | advmod |
| 6 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 shows | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | It | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | crashes | rare property | tree rules |
Option 2
It proves Kai's plane will be the one to crash
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 proves | nsubj |
| 2 | proves | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Kai | case |
| 5 | plane | plane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 one | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 one | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 proves | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 crash | mark |
| 11 | crash | crash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 one | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | present | It | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | future | Kai | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | crash | to-infinitive | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
It means the news was lying about the crash
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 news | det |
| 4 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lying | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lying | aux |
| 6 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 means | ccomp |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 crash | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 crash | det |
| 9 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lying | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | It | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | lie | past · progressive | the news | about the crash | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about crash=Location |
Option 4
It means trains are much more dangerous
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | trains | train | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dangerous | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dangerous | cop |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 dangerous | advmod |
| 7 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 means | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | It | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | trains | dangerous 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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