Test 5 · ★ · The YouTuber who is right about everything
Dad: "He works for the other brand, Kai. That's like asking a cat if dogs are any good." What should Kai do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad, That, dogs, Kai · What happens: work, ask, be, do · To what, where: cat
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 174 «The YouTuber who is right about everything» 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: Dad: "He works for the other brand, Kai.
vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for brand=Beneficiary
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: That's like asking a cat if dogs are any good."
vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Read reviews from many places before deciding
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Read
read
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
2
reviews
review
NOUN
Number=Plur
1 Read
obj
3
from
from
ADP
_
5 places
case
4
many
many
ADJ
Degree=Pos
5 places
amod
5
places
place
NOUN
Number=Plur
2 reviews
nmod
6
before
before
SCONJ
_
7 deciding
mark
7
deciding
decide
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
1 Read
advcl
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
read
imperative
you not said here
reviews
many places
vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent review=Topic from place=Source
2
decide
gerund
you not said here
vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
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.