Test 9 · ★★ · Sounds right, but is wrong
Jamal's mum: "You don't get extra birthdays for being the oldest, love." When Jamal is 30, how old will his brother be?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, Jamal, brother · What happens: not get, be · To what, where: extra birthdays, 30
This is test 9 · ★★ 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: Jamal's mum: "You don't get extra birthdays for being the oldest, love."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jamal | Jamal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Jamal | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
| 6 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 get | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 get | advmod |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mum | appos |
| 10 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 birthdays | amod |
| 11 | birthdays | birthday | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 get | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 love | case |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 love | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 love | det |
| 15 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 love | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 oldest | punct |
| 17 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get in a quote | present · do-support | You | extra birthdays | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer birthday=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | gerund | for the oldest love | tree rules |
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: When Jamal is 30, how old will his brother be?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 30 | mark |
| 2 | Jamal | Jamal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 30 | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 30 | cop |
| 4 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 old | punct |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 old | advmod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 30 | amod |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 be | aux |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 be | nsubj |
| 11 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 old | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 30 | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Jamal | 30 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | future | Jamal's brother | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
15
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
35
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 35 | 35 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
20
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
25
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 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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