Test 1 · ★★★ · Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★
"Everyone in my class is allowed to stay up till midnight, everyone!" moans Jay. What is he most likely really saying?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Everyone, Jay · What happens: allow, stay up, moan, be · To what, where: Everyone, Jay · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 103 «Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★» of the religion ethics 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: "Everyone in my class is allowed to stay up till midnight, everyone!" moans Jay.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 allowed | punct |
| 2 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 class | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 class | nmod:poss |
| 5 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Everyone | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 allowed | aux:pass |
| 7 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 moans | csubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 stay | mark |
| 9 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 allowed | xcomp |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 stay | compound:prt |
| 11 | till | till | ADP | _ | 12 midnight | case |
| 12 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stay | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 everyone | punct |
| 14 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 stay | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 allowed | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 allowed | punct |
| 17 | moans | moan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | Jay | Jay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 moans | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 moans | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow in a quote | present · passive | Everyone | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | stay up not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Everyone not said here | everyone | midnight | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | moan | present | Jay | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent jay=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: What is he most likely really saying?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 saying | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 saying | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saying | nsubj |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 likely | advmod |
| 5 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 7 saying | advmod |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 saying | advmod |
| 7 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 saying | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Jay | likely, say property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
All thirty kids stay up till midnight every night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 kids | det |
| 2 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 kids | nummod |
| 3 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stay | nsubj |
| 4 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 stay | compound:prt |
| 6 | till | till | ADP | _ | 7 midnight | case |
| 7 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stay | obl |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 night | det |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stay | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay up | present | all thirty kids | midnight; night | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Nobody in his class goes to bed at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 class | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 class | nmod:poss |
| 4 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nobody | nmod |
| 5 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 bed | case |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 goes | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 goes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Nobody | all | to bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location |
Option 3
His parents have said yes to midnight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 parents | nmod:poss |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | aux |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 said | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 midnight | case |
| 7 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · perfect | His parents | midnight | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Some friends have said they stay up late
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 friends | det |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | aux |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stay | nsubj |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 stay | advmod |
| 8 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 stay | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | some friends | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stay up | present | friends = friend | late property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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