Test 8 · Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats"
Teen, bored: "Best pizza in town, voted by his nan and three uncles. The pizza's mid, tbh." What is wrong with the vote?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: vote, be · To what, where: Best pizza
This is test 8 of lesson 176 «Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats"» 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: Teen, bored: "Best pizza in town, voted by his nan and three uncles.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teen | teen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bored | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Teen | punct |
| 3 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 pizza | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 pizza | punct |
| 6 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 pizza | amod |
| 7 | pizza | pizza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bored | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pizza | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 voted | punct |
| 11 | voted | vote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 pizza | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 nan | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 nan | nmod:poss |
| 14 | nan | nan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 voted | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 uncles | cc |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 uncles | nummod |
| 17 | uncles | uncle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 nan | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bored | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vote in a quote | participle | Best pizza in town not said here | by his nan and three uncles | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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: The pizza's mid, tbh."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pizza | det |
| 2 | pizza | pizza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mid | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 pizza | case |
| 4 | mid | mid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tbh | punct |
| 6 | tbh | tbh | ADV | _ | 4 mid | advmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mid | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mid | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: What is wrong with the vote?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 vote | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 vote | det |
| 6 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrong | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | with the vote; wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Four votes is the right number for a town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 votes | nummod |
| 2 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 number | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 number | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 number | det |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 number | amod |
| 6 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 number | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Four votes | the right number | for a town | tree rules |
Option 2
Nans are not allowed to vote on pizza
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nans | nan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 allowed | advmod |
| 4 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 vote | mark |
| 6 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 allowed | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 pizza | case |
| 8 | pizza | pizza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 vote | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | present · passive | Nans | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | vote not said to happen | to-infinitive | Nans not said here | pizza | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
No pizza can ever be voted best
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 pizza | det |
| 2 | pizza | pizza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 voted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 voted | aux |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 voted | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 voted | aux:pass |
| 6 | voted | vote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 voted | obl:agent |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vote | can · passive | best | no pizza | ever | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The voters weren't fair judges
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 voters | det |
| 2 | voters | voter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 judges | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 judges | cop |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 judges | advmod |
| 5 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 judges | amod |
| 6 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | the voters | fair judges | 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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