Test 4 · "How do you know?"
Ruby: "Grandad, I looked it up. You got played by 1940." What tricked Grandad?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ruby · What happens: look up, play, trick · To what, where: it, You, Grandad
This is test 4 of lesson 186 «"How do you know?"» 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: "Grandad, I looked it up.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 Grandad | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Grandad | punct |
| 4 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ruby | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ruby | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 looked | obj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 looked | compound:prt |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up in a quote | past | Ruby and Grandad | it | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute |
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: You got played by 1940."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 played | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 played | aux:pass |
| 3 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 1940 | case |
| 5 | 1940 | 1940 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 played | obl |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 played | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 played | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past · passive | You | by 1940 | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Sentence 3: What tricked Grandad?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 tricked | nsubj |
| 2 | tricked | trick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tricked | obj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 tricked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trick | past | Grandad | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandad=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
A wartime story spread to hide radar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 2 | wartime | wartime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 story | compound |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | nsubj |
| 4 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hide | mark |
| 6 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 spread | advcl |
| 7 | radar | radar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hide | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | a wartime story | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hide | to-infinitive | a wartime story not said here | radar | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent radar=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
A real study of pilots who ate carrots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 study | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 study | amod |
| 3 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 pilots | case |
| 5 | pilots | pilot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 study | nmod |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 ate | nsubj |
| 7 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pilots | acl:relcl |
| 8 | carrots | carrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ate | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | pilots | carrots | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carrot=Patient | ||||
| 2 | study | pilots | nom study «act transitive»: of=patient |
Option 3
A cartoon about a rabbit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 rabbit | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rabbit | det |
| 5 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cartoon | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Advice from a doctor today
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 doctor | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 doctor | det |
| 4 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Advice | nmod |
| 5 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Advice | obl:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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