Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / World / "It worked once": one example is not all / t6

Test 6 · ★ · "It worked once": one example is not all

Harper: "My nan's dog licked the postman so much he had to change his shirt. So no, not all dogs, fam." What does her example do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog, example, her · What happens: lick, have, change, do, exemplify · To what, where: Harper, shirt

This is test 6 · ★ 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: Harper: "My nan's dog licked the postman so much he had to change his shirt.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Harper	harper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 licked	obl:unmarked
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Harper	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 licked	punct
4	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nan	nmod:poss
5	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dog	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 nan	case
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 licked	nsubj
8	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 postman	det
10	postman	postman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 licked	obj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADV	_	14 had	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 licked	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 change	mark
16	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 shirt	nmod:poss
18	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 change	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 licked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lick in a quote	past	My nan's dog	Harper					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent postman=Source
2	have in a quote	past	dog						tree rules
3	change in a quote	to-infinitive	dog not said here	dog's shirt					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Patient

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: So no, not all dogs, fam."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	8 fam	advmod
2	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 fam	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dogs	punct
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 dogs	advmod
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 dogs	det
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fam	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fam	punct
8	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fam	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 fam	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 3: What does her example do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 example	nmod:poss
4	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	her example						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	exemplify		her = she						nom example «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

It shows one case can break an "all" rule

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 case	nummod
4	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 break	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 break	aux
6	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 shows	ccomp
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 rule	det
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 all	punct
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 rule	det
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 all	punct
11	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 break	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	break	can	one case	a rule					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Patient

Option 2

It proves her nan's dog is the only friendly one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 nan	nmod:poss
4	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dog	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 nan	case
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 one	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 one	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
9	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
10	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 proves	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	her nan's dog	the only friendly one					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It proves all dogs lick postmen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 dogs	det
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lick	nsubj
5	lick	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 proves	ccomp
6	postmen	postman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	lick	present	all dogs	postmen					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent postman=Source

Option 4

It shows postmen don't like dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	postmen	postman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 like	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 like	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 like	advmod
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 shows	ccomp
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not like	present · do-support	postmen	dogs					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dog=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/164-it-worked-once-one-example-is-not-all/t6/