Test 2 · ★★ · Sounds right, but is wrong
Ruby: "Day 24, easy!" Teacher: "On day 24 it was tiny, like a freckle." If a doubling pond fills on day 30, when was it a quarter full?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Teacher, doubling pond, pond · What happens: be, fill · To what, where: quarter
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 183 «Sounds right, but is wrong» 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: "Day 24, easy!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 easy | compound |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 24 | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 24 | punct |
| 4 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 24 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Ruby | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ruby | punct |
| 7 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 easy | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 easy | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Teacher: "On day 24 it was tiny, like a freckle."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 tiny | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 tiny | punct |
| 4 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tiny | obl |
| 6 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 day | flat |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tiny | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tiny | cop |
| 9 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Teacher | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 freckle | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 freckle | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 freckle | det |
| 13 | freckle | freckle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tiny | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 freckle | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 freckle | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | Teacher | day | tiny property | tree rules |
Sentence 3: If a doubling pond fills on day 30, when was it a quarter full?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 fills | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pond | det |
| 3 | doubling | doubling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pond | compound |
| 4 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fills | nsubj |
| 5 | fills | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 quarter | advcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fills | obl |
| 8 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 day | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fills | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 quarter | advmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 quarter | cop |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 quarter | nsubj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 quarter | det |
| 14 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 quarter | amod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 quarter | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill a condition, not said to happen | present | a doubling pond | day | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | pond | a quarter | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Day 15
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Day | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Day 7
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Day | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Day 28
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Day | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Day 29
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | 29 | 29 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Day | flat |
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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