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Test 8 · ★★★ · Sounds wrong, but is right

Friend: "My list is exactly as rare as yours, yours just has a better haircut." What does he mean?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: list, yours, My, Friend · What happens: be, have, list, mean · To what, where: better haircut

This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 182 «Sounds wrong, but is right» 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: Friend: "My list is exactly as rare as yours, yours just has a better haircut."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 rare	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 rare	punct
4	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 list	nmod:poss
5	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rare	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 rare	cop
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	9 rare	advmod
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 rare	advmod
9	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Friend	parataxis
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 yours	case
11	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 rare	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct
13	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 has	nsubj
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 has	advmod
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 rare	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 haircut	det
17	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 haircut	amod
18	haircut	haircut	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Friend	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Friend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	My list					as yours; exactly, rare property	tree rules
2	have in a quote	present	yours	a better haircut					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haircut=Patient
3	list in a quote		My						nom list «communication transitive»: poss=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 does he mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	Friend						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Ten heads only looks special; each exact list is equally rare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 heads	nummod
2	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 looks	obl
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 looks	advmod
4	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looks	xcomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 looks	punct
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 list	det
8	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 list	amod
9	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rare	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 rare	cop
11	equally	equally	ADV	_	12 rare	advmod
12	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present		Ten heads				special property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present	each exact list					equally, rare property	tree rules

Option 2

Ten heads is far rarer than any mixed list

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 heads	nummod
2	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rarer	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rarer	cop
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 rarer	advmod
5	rarer	rare	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	9 list	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 list	det
8	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 list	amod
9	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rarer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ten heads					than any mixed list; far, rare property	tree rules
2	mix	participle							vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Mixed lists of flips are impossible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lists	amod
2	lists	list	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 impossible	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 flips	case
4	flips	flip	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lists	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 impossible	cop
6	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	participle							vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	Mixed lists of flips					impossible property	tree rules
3	list			flips					nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Coins remember what they did last time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 remember	nsubj
2	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	obj
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remember	ccomp
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	Coins						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	do	past	Coins = coin				time		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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