Test 3 · "Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason
Teaching assistant: "Thirty kids saying it once is still just one kid saying it." What does she mean?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Thirty kids, Teaching, one kid, she · What happens: teach, say, be, mean · To what, where: assistant, one kid · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 of lesson 166 «"Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason» 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: Teaching assistant: "Thirty kids saying it once is still just one kid saying it."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teaching | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 kid | csubj |
| 2 | assistant | assistant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Teaching | obj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 kids | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 kids | punct |
| 5 | Thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 kids | nummod |
| 6 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Teaching | obl |
| 7 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 kids | acl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saying | obj |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 saying | advmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 kid | cop |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 kid | advmod |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 kid | advmod |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 kid | nummod |
| 14 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 kid | acl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saying | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 kid | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 kid | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | gerund | assistant | Thirty kids obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent assistant=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | gerund | Thirty kids not said here | assistant | once property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Teaching | one kid | still | tree rules | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | gerund | one kid not said here | assistant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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 does she mean?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 mean | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | she | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Repeating one person's claim doesn't make it more true
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Repeating | repeat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 make | csubj |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 person | nummod |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 claim | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 person | case |
| 5 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Repeating | obj |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 make | advmod |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 true | amod |
| 11 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | gerund | one person's claim | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not make | present · do-support | Repeating | claim | true property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 3 | claim | one person | nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
Only one kid at a time should be allowed to talk in the classroom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 kid | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 kid | nummod |
| 3 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kid | nmod |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 allowed | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 allowed | aux:pass |
| 9 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 talk | mark |
| 11 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 allowed | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 classroom | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 classroom | det |
| 14 | classroom | classroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 talk | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | should · passive | one kid at a time | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | talk not said to happen | to-infinitive | one kid at a time not said here | the classroom | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
The new girl is only one person
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 person | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 person | cop |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 one | advmod |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 person | nummod |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the new girl | one person | tree rules |
Option 4
Thirty kids are louder than one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 kids | nummod |
| 2 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 louder | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 louder | cop |
| 4 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 4 louder | fixed |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 louder | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Thirty kids | one obl; loud property | tree rules |
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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