Test 10 · ★ · Trick questions that catch quick thinkers
Big sister in Manchester: "Our kid tried to light the candle first. With his thoughts." What should come first?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid · What happens: try, light, think, come · To what, where: candle
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 181 «Trick questions that catch quick thinkers» 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: Big sister in Manchester: "Our kid tried to light the candle first.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sister | amod |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Manchester | case |
| 4 | Manchester | Manchester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sister | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 tried | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 tried | punct |
| 7 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 kid | nmod:poss |
| 8 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tried | nsubj |
| 9 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sister | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 light | mark |
| 11 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tried | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 candle | det |
| 13 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 light | obj |
| 14 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 light | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sister | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | past | Our kid | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | light not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Our kid not said here | the candle | first property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Product |
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: With his thoughts."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 thoughts | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 3 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thoughts | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thoughts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think | kid | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
Sentence 3: What should come first?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 come | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | should | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The candle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 candle | det |
| 2 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The match
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 match | det |
| 2 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The lamp
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lamp | det |
| 2 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Whatever is closest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 closest | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 closest | cop |
| 3 | closest | close | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Whatever | close 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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