Test 7 · Chocolate and sweets
«ate a gummy bear, it was all dusty, gross, is that mould??» What is most likely?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bear · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: gummy bear, mould
This is test 7 of lesson 2 «Chocolate and sweets» 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
Sentence 1: «ate a gummy bear, it was all dusty, gross, is that mould??»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 ate | punct |
| 2 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bear | det |
| 4 | gummy | gummy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bear | amod |
| 5 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ate | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dusty | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dusty | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dusty | cop |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 dusty | advmod |
| 10 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ate | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gross | punct |
| 12 | gross | gross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dusty | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mould | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 mould | cop |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 mould | mark |
| 16 | mould | mould | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ate | parataxis |
| 17 | ?? | ?? | PUNCT | _ | 2 ate | punct |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 ate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat in a quote | past | a gummy bear | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | bear | all, dusty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | bear not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | mould | 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: What is most likely?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 likely | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 likely | cop |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 likely | advmod |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 likely | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | likely property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Mould that grew from dirt on the factory floor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mould | mould | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 dirt | case |
| 5 | dirt | dirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | obl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 floor | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 floor | det |
| 8 | factory | factory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 floor | compound |
| 9 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Mould | dirt | on the factory floor | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Cornflour left from the shaping trays
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cornflour | cornflour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Cornflour | acl |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 trays | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 trays | det |
| 5 | shaping | shaping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trays | compound |
| 6 | trays | tray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 left | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | Cornflour not said here | the shaping trays | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tray=Initial_Location |
Option 3
Fluff and dust from inside the bear's wrapper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fluff | fluff | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 dust | cc |
| 3 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fluff | conj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 wrapper | case |
| 5 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 9 wrapper | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bear | det |
| 7 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wrapper | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 bear | case |
| 9 | wrapper | wrapper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fluff | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Sugar on the outside that has turned into sand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 outside | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 outside | det |
| 4 | outside | outside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sugar | nmod |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 turned | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 turned | aux |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 outside | acl:relcl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 sand | case |
| 9 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present · perfect | the outside | sand | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into sand=Trajectory |
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