Test 3 · ★★ · The internet and undersea cables

«first result says sharks are mammals so it's true lol» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: first result, sharks, result · What happens: say, be · To what, where: mammals, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 37 «The internet and undersea cables» 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	_	4 says	punct
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 result	amod
3	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mammals	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mammals	cop
7	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 says	ccomp
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 true	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 true	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 true	cop
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	advcl
12	lol	lol	INTJ	_	18 answer	discourse
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 lol	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 answer	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 answer	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 answer	det
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 answer	amod
18	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 true	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	first result			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	sharks	mammals		tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	result		true property	tree rules
4	be speech: assert	present		the best answer		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

The first result is always true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 result	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 result	amod
3	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 true	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 true	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 true	advmod
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the first result					always, true property	tree rules

Option 2

If it is on the internet it is true, because someone checked it before it went up

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 internet	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 internet	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 internet	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 internet	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 internet	det
6	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 true	nsubj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 true	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 true	cop
9	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 checked	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 checked	mark
12	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 checked	nsubj
13	checked	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 true	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 checked	obj
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 went	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 checked	advcl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 went	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	it		the internet		tree rules
2	is	present	the internet			true property	tree rules
3	check	past	someone	internet			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	go up	past	internet				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Only the last result can be wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 result	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 result	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 result	amod
4	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wrong	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 wrong	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 wrong	cop
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	the last result					wrong property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Search results can be wrong; check good sources

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 results	compound
2	results	result	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wrong	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 wrong	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 wrong	cop
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 check	punct
7	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 wrong	parataxis
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sources	amod
9	sources	source	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 check	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	Search results					wrong property	tree rules
2	check	infinitive		good sources					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent source=Theme

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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