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Test 8 · Psalms and Proverbs

Ben boasted he'd win the race without training, then came last. Which saying fits?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ben · What happens: boast, win, come, say · To what, where: race, fits · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 of lesson 11 «Psalms and Proverbs» 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: Ben boasted he'd win the race without training, then came last.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boasted	nsubj
2	boasted	boast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 win	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 win	aux
5	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 boasted	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 race	det
7	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 win	obj
8	without	without	ADP	_	9 training	case
9	training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 win	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 came	advmod
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 boasted	conj
13	last	last	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 boasted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boast speech: other	past	Ben						vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	win	would	Ben	the race				without training	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality
3	come	past	Ben not said here				then	last property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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: Which saying fits?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 saying	nsubj
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	fits	fit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saying	obj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		fits					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fit=Topic

The options

Option 1

Walk with the wise and become wise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 wise	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wise	det
4	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Walk	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 become	cc
6	become	become	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Walk	conj
7	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	imperative	you not said here					with the wise	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become	infinitive	you not said here					wise property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Make a joyful noise to the Lord

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 noise	det
3	joyful	joyful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 noise	amod
4	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 Lord	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Lord	det
7	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	a joyful noise				to the Lord	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Pride goes before a fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	ADP	_	5 fall	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fall	det
5	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Pride			a fall			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before fall=Location

Option 4

How long, O Lord?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 long	punct
4	O	o	INTJ	_	5 Lord	discourse
5	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 long	vocative
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 long	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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