Test 7 · ★ · Trick questions that catch quick thinkers
Ruby: "June, obviously!" Auntie: "Whose mum is it?" What is the answer?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, answer · What happens: be · To what, where: Auntie
This is test 7 · ★ 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: Ruby: "June, obviously!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 June | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 June | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 June | punct |
| 4 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 June | punct |
| 6 | obviously | obviously | ADV | _ | 4 June | advmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 obviously | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 June | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Auntie: "Whose mum is it?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Auntie | auntie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 it | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 it | punct |
| 4 | Whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 5 mum | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 it | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 it | cop |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Auntie | conj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Auntie | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Auntie | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | mum | Auntie | tree rules |
Sentence 3: What is the 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 | 4 answer | det |
| 4 | answer | answer | 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 answer | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
June
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
April
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Mike
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mike | Mike | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Ruby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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