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Test 6 · "Crime is up, I saw it on the news"

Grandpa from Pittsburgh: "Back in my day yinz kids played out all day, way safer." What is the fair answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandpa, fair answer · What happens: play out, be

This is test 6 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: Grandpa from Pittsburgh: "Back in my day yinz kids played out all day, way safer."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 played	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Pittsburgh	case
3	Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Grandpa	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 played	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Back	punct
6	Back	back	ADV	_	12 played	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 day	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 day	nmod:poss
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Back	obl
10	yinz	yinz	PROPN	_	12 played	nsubj
11	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 played	nsubj
12	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	out	out	ADV	_	12 played	advmod
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 played	obl:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 way	punct
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 played	parataxis
18	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 way	amod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 played	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 played	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play out in a quote	past	Grandpa from Pittsburgh				day	out property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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: What is the fair answer?

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	5 answer	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the fair answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Everything was safer in the 1970s

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 safer	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 safer	cop
3	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 1970s	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 1970s	det
6	1970s	1970s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	3 safer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Everything			the 1970s		safe property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Some things were better then, but roads are much safer for children now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 things	det
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 better	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 better	cop
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 better	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 safer	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 safer	cc
8	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 safer	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 safer	cop
10	much	much	ADV	_	11 safer	advmod
11	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 better	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 children	case
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 safer	obl
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 better	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	some things				then; now	good property	tree rules
2	is	present	roads					for children; safe property	tree rules

Option 3

Nothing at all was better in the past

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 better	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 better	cop
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 past	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 past	det
8	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Nothing			the past		good property	tree rules

Option 4

Children never played outside back then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 played	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 played	advmod
3	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	outside	outside	ADV	_	3 played	advmod
5	back	back	ADV	_	3 played	advmod
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 played	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not play back	past	Children				then	outside property	vn performance-26.7-1 «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.

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