Test 5 · ★★ · How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming an…
Sam asks Ben, «What's shiva, is it like a sleepover?» Ben explains. What is true?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sam, Ben, shiva · What happens: ask, be, explain · To what, where: Ben, shiva · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 65 «How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more» 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: Sam asks Ben, «What's shiva, is it like a sleepover?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shiva | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 shiva | punct |
| 6 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 shiva | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 shiva | cop |
| 8 | shiva | shiva | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Ben | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sleepover | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sleepover | cop |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sleepover | nsubj |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 sleepover | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sleepover | det |
| 14 | sleepover | sleepover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Sam | Ben | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ben=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Ben | shiva | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | shiva | like a sleepover | 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: Ben explains.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 explains | nsubj |
| 2 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 explains | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | present | Ben | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: What is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
A sleepover at the synagogue for children
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sleepover | det |
| 2 | sleepover | sleepover | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 synagogue | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 synagogue | det |
| 5 | synagogue | synagogue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sleepover | nmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 children | case |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 synagogue | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A party with games and music every night of the week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 party | det |
| 2 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 night | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 games | case |
| 4 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 party | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 music | cc |
| 6 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 games | conj |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 night | det |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 week | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 week | det |
| 11 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 night | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A week of mourning at home where friends visit with food
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 week | det |
| 2 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 visit | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 mourning | case |
| 4 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 week | nmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 visit | obl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 visit | advmod |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 visit | nsubj |
| 9 | visit | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 food | case |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 visit | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | present | friends | home | week | with food | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with food=Co-Agent |
Option 4
A week of fasting at home with no visitors allowed in at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 week | det |
| 2 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 4 fasting | mark |
| 4 | fasting | fast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 week | acl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fasting | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 visitors | case |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 visitors | det |
| 9 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fasting | obl |
| 10 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 visitors | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 allowed | compound:prt |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 all | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 allowed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fast | gerund | a week not said here | home | with no visitors | tree rules | |||
| 2 | allow in | participle | no visitors not said here | all | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer |
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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