Test 11 · How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people

«first thing ever beeped at a till was a banana innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: first thing, banana innit · What happens: beep, be · To what, where: first thing, till, banana innit

This is test 11 of lesson 1 «How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people» of the technology 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 thing	punct
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 innit	nsubj
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 beeped	advmod
5	beeped	beep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 thing	acl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 till	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 till	det
8	till	till	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beeped	obl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 innit	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 innit	det
11	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 innit	compound
12	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 innit	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beep in a quote	participle		first thing not said here	a till	ever		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at till=Location
2	is a in a quote	past	first thing	a banana innit				tree rules
3	is	present	a banana innit				right property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, a banana in about 1950, at a London shop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 banana	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 banana	det
4	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 1950	case
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 1950	advmod
7	1950	1950	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 banana	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shop	punct
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 shop	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 shop	det
11	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 shop	compound
12	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 banana	conj

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

Option 2

No, it was a newspaper at a station in about 1960

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 newspaper	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 newspaper	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 newspaper	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 newspaper	det
6	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 station	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 station	det
9	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 newspaper	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 1960	case
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 1960	advmod
12	1960	1960	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 newspaper	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a newspaper		a station		in 1960	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, it was a pack of chewing gum in 1974

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 pack	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pack	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pack	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pack	det
6	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 gum	case
8	chewing	chewing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gum	compound
9	gum	gum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pack	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 1974	case
11	1974	1974	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 gum	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a pack				of chewing gum in 1974	tree rules

Option 4

No, it was a tin of baked beans in about 1990

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 tin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tin	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tin	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tin	det
6	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 beans	case
8	baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 beans	amod
9	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tin	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 1990	case
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 1990	advmod
12	1990	1990	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 beans	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a tin				of baked beans in 1990	tree rules
2	bake	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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