Test 5 · ★ · "It worked once": one example is not all
Pat's sister: "Your cold went cos it was day seven, ya eejit." What is she saying?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cold, Pat · What happens: go, be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 164 «"It worked once": one example is not all» of the world 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: Pat's sister: "Your cold went cos it was day seven, ya eejit."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pat | Pat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Pat | case |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 6 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cold | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sister | conj |
| 9 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 12 day | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 day | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 day | cop |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 13 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 day | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ya | punct |
| 15 | ya | ya | X | ExtPos=PROPN | 3 sister | appos |
| 16 | eejit | eejit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ya | goeswith |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sister | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sister | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | past | Your cold | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | cold | cos day | 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 she saying?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 saying | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 saying | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saying | nsubj |
| 4 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 saying | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · progressive | Pat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The whiskey made the cold go away a lot faster than usual
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 whiskey | det |
| 2 | whiskey | whiskey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cold | det |
| 5 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | xcomp |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lot | det |
| 9 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 made | advmod |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 usual | case |
| 12 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 faster | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the whiskey | the cold | a lot obl:unmarked; fast property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go away | infinitive | the cold not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The cold would have gone anyway, without the drink
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cold | det |
| 2 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 gone | aux |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 5 gone | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drink | punct |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 10 drink | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 drink | det |
| 10 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | would · perfect | the cold | anyway property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Colds always last exactly seven days, never more or less
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colds | cold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 last | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 last | advmod |
| 3 | last | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 5 seven | advmod |
| 5 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 days | nummod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 last | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 more | punct |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 last | advmod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 less | cc |
| 11 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 more | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | present | Colds | day | always property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Pat caught the cold from his sister in the first place
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pat | Pat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 caught | nsubj |
| 2 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cold | det |
| 4 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 caught | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 sister | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sister | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 caught | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 place | amod |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 caught | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | Pat | the cold | the first place | from Pat's sister | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cold=Theme from sister=Source |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/164-it-worked-once-one-example-is-not-all/t5/