Test 10 · ★★★ · Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★
Freya says "I'm starving" once at 11:50, and "I'm not hungry" every lunch for two weeks. Which should worry a friend?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Freya · What happens: say, starve, not be, worry · To what, where: 11:50, friend · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★★★ 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: Freya says "I'm starving" once at 11:50, and "I'm not hungry" every lunch for two weeks.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Freya | Freya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 starving | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 starving | nsubj |
| 5 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 starving | aux |
| 6 | starving | starve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 says | ccomp |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 starving | punct |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 starving | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 11:50 | case |
| 10 | 11:50 | 11:50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 starving | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hungry | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hungry | cc |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 hungry | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 hungry | nsubj |
| 15 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hungry | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 hungry | advmod |
| 17 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 says | ccomp |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 hungry | punct |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 lunch | det |
| 20 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hungry | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 weeks | case |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 weeks | nummod |
| 23 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hungry | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Freya | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | starve in a quote | present · progressive | Freya | 11:50 | once property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present | Freya | week | every lunch obl:unmarked; hungry 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: Which should worry a friend?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 worry | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 worry | aux |
| 3 | worry | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 friend | det |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 worry | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 worry | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | worry | should | a friend | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus friend=Experiencer |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
"I'm starving" just before lunch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 starving | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 starving | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 starving | aux |
| 4 | starving | starve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 starving | punct |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 lunch | advmod |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 lunch | case |
| 8 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 starving | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | starve in a quote | present · progressive | I | before lunch | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
"Not hungry" every day for two weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hungry | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 hungry | advmod |
| 3 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hungry | punct |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hungry | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 weeks | case |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 weeks | nummod |
| 9 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hungry | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Both of them equally
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Both | nmod |
| 4 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 1 Both | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Neither, since food talk is never a clue
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 9 clue | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | since | since | ADP | _ | 5 talk | case |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 talk | compound |
| 5 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clue | obl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 clue | cop |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 clue | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 clue | det |
| 9 | clue | clue | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | a clue | since food talk | neither 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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