Test 6 · Farm animals, forest animals and pets
Granny says the leleka brought the baby. What is she telling?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Granny, leleka · What happens: say, bring, tell · To what, where: baby · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 of lesson 22 «Farm animals, forest animals and pets» 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: Granny says the leleka brought the baby.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Granny | Granny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 leleka | det |
| 4 | leleka | leleka | NOUN | Foreign=Yes | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 baby | det |
| 7 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Granny | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring | past | the leleka | the baby | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent baby=Theme |
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 she telling?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 telling | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 telling | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 telling | nsubj |
| 4 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 telling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · progressive | leleka | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A real fact about storks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fact | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fact | amod |
| 3 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 storks | case |
| 5 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fact | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
An old story about storks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 story | amod |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 storks | case |
| 5 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 story | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A rule about hens
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rule | det |
| 2 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 hens | case |
| 4 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rule | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A joke about wolves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 joke | det |
| 2 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 wolves | case |
| 4 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 joke | nmod |
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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