Test 6 · "How do you know?"

The teacher: "Sorry, Leo, no hidden superpowers." What would someone need to back up the 10% claim?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: someone · What happens: need, back up · To what, where: % claim

This is test 6 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: The teacher: "Sorry, Leo, no hidden superpowers."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Leo	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Leo	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Sorry	punct
5	Sorry	sorry	INTJ	_	7 Leo	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Leo	punct
7	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 superpowers	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 superpowers	det
10	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 superpowers	amod
11	superpowers	superpower	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 Leo	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 Leo	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Leo	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 2: What would someone need to back up the 10% claim?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 need	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 need	aux
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 back	mark
6	back	back	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 need	xcomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 back	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 claim	det
9	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 %	nummod
10	%	%	SYM	Number=Sing	11 claim	compound
11	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 back	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	would	someone						tree rules
2	back up not said to happen	to-infinitive	someone not said here	the % claim					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

A way to measure it, like brain scans, and they show the opposite

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 show	nsubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 measure	mark
4	measure	measure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 way	acl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 measure	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 scans	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 scans	case
8	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 scans	compound
9	scans	scan	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 measure	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 show	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 show	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 show	nsubj
13	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 opposite	det
15	opposite	opposite	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	to-infinitive	a way not said here	way				like brain scans	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value
2	show	present	a way	the opposite					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent opposite=Recipient

Option 2

A famous film that says it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 film	det
2	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 film	amod
3	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 film	acl:relcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 says	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a famous film	film					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

Nothing; everybody already knows it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 knows	punct
3	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 knows	nsubj
4	already	already	ADV	_	5 knows	advmod
5	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	acl:relcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	everybody	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A poster with a brain on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 poster	det
2	poster	poster	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 brain	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 brain	det
5	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 poster	nmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brain	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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