Test 5 · ★★ · To a hundred, first and last, and the first colour
Sashko's little brother shows three fingers by bending three into the palm and leaving two up. What would happen if you read the fingers still up?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: little brother, you · What happens: show, bend, leave up, happen, read up · To what, where: three fingers, three, palm, two, fingers
This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 9 «To a hundred, first and last, and the first colour» 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: Sashko's little brother shows three fingers by bending three into the palm and leaving two up.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sashko | Sashko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sashko | case |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shows | nsubj |
| 5 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 fingers | nummod |
| 7 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shows | obj |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 bending | mark |
| 9 | bending | bend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 shows | advcl |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 bending | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 palm | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palm | det |
| 13 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bending | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 leaving | cc |
| 15 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 bending | conj |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 leaving | obj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 leaving | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Sashko's little brother | three fingers | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent finger=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | bend | gerund | Sashko's little brother not said here | three | the palm | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent three=Material into palm=Product | |||
| 3 | leave up | gerund | Sashko's little brother not said here | two | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=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 would happen if you read the fingers still up?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 read | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 read | nsubj |
| 6 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fingers | det |
| 8 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 read | obj |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 up | advmod |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 read | compound:prt |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | read up a condition, not said to happen | present | you | the fingers | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Topic |
The options
Option 1
You'd read five
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 read | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 read | aux |
| 3 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 read | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | would | You | five | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent five=Topic |
Option 2
You'd read zero
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 read | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 read | aux |
| 3 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | zero | zero | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 read | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | would | You | zero | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zero=Topic |
Option 3
You'd read three correctly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 read | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 read | aux |
| 3 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 read | obj |
| 5 | correctly | correctly | ADV | _ | 3 read | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | would | You | three | correctly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Topic |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
You'd read two, though he means three
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 read | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 read | aux |
| 3 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 read | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 6 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 8 means | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 means | nsubj |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 read | parataxis |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 means | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | would | You | two | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | he | three | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Topic |
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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