Test 2 · "Crime is up, I saw it on the news"
Young cousin: "Yo, sharks lowkey everywhere in Cornwall, I saw a vid, I'm not swimming fr." What is the truth?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Young cousin, I, truth · What happens: see, not swim, be · To what, where: vid, fr
This is test 2 of lesson 177 «"Crime is up, I saw it on the news"» 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: Young cousin: "Yo, sharks lowkey everywhere in Cornwall, I saw a vid, I'm not swimming fr."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cousin | amod |
| 2 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 sharks | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sharks | punct |
| 5 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 7 sharks | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Yo | punct |
| 7 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cousin | conj |
| 8 | lowkey | lowkey | ADV | _ | 9 everywhere | advmod |
| 9 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 sharks | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Cornwall | case |
| 11 | Cornwall | Cornwall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 everywhere | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cousin | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 vid | det |
| 16 | vid | vid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 swimming | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 swimming | nsubj |
| 19 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 swimming | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 swimming | advmod |
| 21 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 saw | parataxis |
| 22 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 swimming | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 swimming | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 swimming | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | past | Young cousin and sharks | a vid | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vid=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not swim in a quote | present · progressive | I | fr | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fr=Trajectory |
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 the truth?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the truth | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Sharks only come close when children swim
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 come | advmod |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 come | advmod |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 swim | mark |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 swim | nsubj |
| 7 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Sharks | close property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swim | present | children | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
One video proves that sharks are everywhere
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 video | nummod |
| 2 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 proves | nsubj |
| 3 | proves | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | ADP | _ | 5 sharks | case |
| 5 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 proves | obl |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 everywhere | cop |
| 7 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 proves | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | present | One video | that sharks | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | One video not said here | everywhere property | tree rules |
Option 3
Cornwall has more shark bites every year than Australia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cornwall | Cornwall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 shark | amod |
| 4 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bites | nsubj |
| 5 | bites | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 has | conj |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 year | det |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bites | obj |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 Australia | case |
| 9 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 year | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Cornwall | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bite | present | more shark | year | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Shark bites around Britain are almost unheard of
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bites | compound |
| 2 | bites | bite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 unheard | nsubj |
| 3 | around | around | ADP | _ | 4 Britain | case |
| 4 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 bites | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 unheard | cop |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 7 unheard | advmod |
| 7 | unheard | unheard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 unheard | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Shark bites around Britain | almost, unheard 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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