Test 1 · ★ · Life is precious: wonder and gratitude
Daisy's brother, a proper Scouser, says, «God caring about pizza? Don't be soft, la.» («Soft» means «silly».) What is the fair answer?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, God, soft, fair answer · What happens: say, care, not be, mean, be · To what, where: silly · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 54 «Life is precious: wonder and gratitude» 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: Daisy's brother, a proper Scouser, says, «God caring about pizza?
vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2
carein a quote
gerund
God
about pizza
vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about pizza=Stimulus
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: Don't be soft, la.» («Soft» means «silly».)
vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about pizza=Stimulus
Option 4
Thanks must always be for something huge, like a new house or a car
The tree, 14 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Thanks
thanks
NOUN
Number=Sing
root
root
2
must
must
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
1 Thanks
parataxis
3
always
always
ADV
PronType=Tot
2 must
advmod
4
be
be
AUX
VerbForm=Inf
6 something
cop
5
for
for
ADP
_
6 something
case
6
something
something
PRON
Number=Sing PronType=Ind
3 always
conj
7
huge
huge
ADJ
Degree=Pos
6 something
amod
8
,
,
PUNCT
_
12 house
punct
9
like
like
ADP
_
12 house
case
10
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
12 house
det
11
new
new
ADJ
Degree=Pos
12 house
amod
12
house
house
NOUN
Number=Sing
6 something
conj
13
or
or
CCONJ
_
15 car
cc
14
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
15 car
det
15
car
car
NOUN
Number=Sing
6 something
conj
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
is
infinitive
for something
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.