Test 1 · ★★★ · Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★
Kofi's mate texts at midnight: "cant sleep. its fine tho. just thinking bout stuff. dont tell my mum." Which word is the downplaying one?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate texts, word · What happens: think, tell, downplay, be · To what, where: bout stuff, mum, downplaying one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 31 «Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★» 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: Kofi's mate texts at midnight: "cant sleep. its fine tho. just thinking bout stuff. dont tell my mum."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kofi | Kofi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 texts | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Kofi | case |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 texts | compound |
| 4 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 tell | nsubj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 midnight | case |
| 6 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 texts | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 texts | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 sleep | punct |
| 9 | cant | cant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sleep | amod |
| 10 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 texts | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sleep | punct |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tho | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tho | amod |
| 14 | tho | tho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sleep | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sleep | punct |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 thinking | advmod |
| 17 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 sleep | conj |
| 18 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stuff | compound |
| 19 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thinking | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sleep | punct |
| 21 | dont | dont | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sleep | conj |
| 22 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mum | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tell | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 tell | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | gerund | Kofi's mate texts at midnight and cant sleep and its fine tho not said here | bout stuff | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot stuff=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Kofi's mate texts at midnight and cant sleep and its fine tho | my mum | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |
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 word is the downplaying one?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 5 | downplaying | downplay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 one | amod |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | downplay | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | which word | the downplaying one | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
"thinking"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 thinking | punct |
| 2 | thinking | thinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 thinking | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
"stuff"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 stuff | punct |
| 2 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 stuff | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
"fine"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 fine | punct |
| 2 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 fine | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
"sleep"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 sleep | punct |
| 2 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 sleep | punct |
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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