Test 10 · ★ · Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice

In Auckland, "sweet as" means what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: sweet · What happens: mean

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 84 «Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Auckland	case
2	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 means	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Auckland	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 sweet	punct
5	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 means	nsubj
6	as	as	ADP	_	5 sweet	fixed
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 sweet	punct
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 means	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	sweet					in Auckland	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot what=Theme in auckland=Attribute

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.

The options

Option 1

Sugary and sticky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sugary	sugary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sticky	cc
3	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sugary	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Sad and lonely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 lonely	cc
3	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sad	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

Great, fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fine	punct
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Great	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Much too sweet to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Much	much	ADV	_	3 sweet	advmod
2	too	too	ADV	_	3 sweet	advmod
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sweet	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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