Test 9 · Goodbyes, coming in, yes and no
In a game a cartoon boy says «AHA» to the queen when she asks a question. What would be better?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon boy, she · What happens: say, ask, be · To what, where: queen, game, question · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 of lesson 2 «Goodbyes, coming in, yes and no» of the Ukrainian street 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: In a game a cartoon boy says «AHA» to the queen when she asks a question.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 game | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 game | det |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 5 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boy | compound |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 AHA | punct |
| 9 | AHA | aha | INTJ | _ | 7 says | ccomp |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 AHA | punct |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 queen | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 queen | det |
| 13 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | obl |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 asks | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asks | nsubj |
| 16 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 question | det |
| 18 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asks | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a cartoon boy | the queen | a game | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to queen=Recipient | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | she | a question | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
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 would be better?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 better | obl |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 better | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 better | cop |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | good property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
zdorOv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | zdorOv | zdorOv | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
ni-ni
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ni | ni | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 ni | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 ni | punct |
| 3 | ni | no | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
tak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tak | tak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
nE-a
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nE | ne | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 nE | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 1 nE | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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