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Test 4 · Some, all, none and "not all"

Ellie: "Mr Brown gave me a look that could boil water." Her friend thought "not all teachers are strict" meant none are. Can Mr Brown be strict?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ellie, look, friend, teachers, strict, Mr · What happens: give, boil, think, not be, mean, be · To what, where: look, me, water, none · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 of lesson 185 «Some, all, none and "not all"» 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: Ellie: "Mr Brown gave me a look that could boil water."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gave	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct
4	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gave	nsubj
5	Brown	Brown	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Mr	flat
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 gave	iobj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 look	det
9	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 boil	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 boil	aux
12	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 look	acl:relcl
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 boil	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	past	Ellie	a look	me				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient look=Theme
2	boil in a quote	could	a look	water					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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: Her friend thought "not all teachers are strict" meant none are.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 strict	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 strict	advmod
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 teachers	det
7	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 strict	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 strict	cop
9	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 meant	nsubj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 strict	punct
11	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	ccomp
12	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	11 meant	obj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 none	cop
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Ellie's friend						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not is in a quote	present	all teachers					strict property	tree rules
3	mean	past	strict						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present		none					tree rules

Sentence 3: Can Mr Brown be strict?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 strict	aux
2	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 strict	nsubj
3	Brown	Brown	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Mr	flat
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 strict	cop
5	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 strict	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	Mr					strict property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only if every teacher is strict

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 strict	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 strict	mark
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 strict	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 strict	cop
6	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	every teacher					strict property	tree rules

Option 2

No; "not all" means none are strict

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 means	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 all	punct
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 all	advmod
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 means	nsubj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 all	punct
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	10 strict	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 strict	cop
10	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	all						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	none					strict property	tree rules

Option 3

No teacher can ever be strict

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 strict	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 strict	aux
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 strict	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 strict	cop
6	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	no teacher				ever	strict property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yes; "not all" leaves room for some strict ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 room	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 room	punct
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 room	advmod
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 room	nsubj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 room	punct
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 room	compound
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 ones	case
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 ones	det
11	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ones	amod
12	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 room	nmod

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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