Test 2 · Check the claim, not the person
The teacher: "Maybe Ella should recycle at home too. But is her idea for school good or not?" What is the teacher separating?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ella, teacher · What happens: recycle, be, separate · To what, where: home, idea
This is test 2 of lesson 188 «Check the claim, not the person» 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: "Maybe Ella should recycle at home too.
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 | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 recycle | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 recycle | punct |
| 5 | Maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 8 recycle | advmod |
| 6 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 recycle | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 recycle | aux |
| 8 | recycle | recycle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 teacher | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 home | case |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 recycle | obl |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 recycle | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 teacher | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recycle in a quote | should | Ella | home | maybe property | 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: But is her idea for school good or not?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 idea | cc |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 idea | cop |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 idea | nmod:poss |
| 4 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 good | case |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 good | compound |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 idea | nmod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 not | cc |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 good | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 idea | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 idea | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Ella's idea | for school good | tree rules |
Sentence 3: What is the teacher separating?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 separating | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 separating | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 teacher | det |
| 4 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 separating | nsubj |
| 5 | separating | separate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 separating | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | separate | present · progressive | the teacher | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Ella from Kai, so they stop arguing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 Kai | case |
| 3 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ella | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stop | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 stop | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stop | nsubj |
| 7 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ella | acl:relcl |
| 8 | arguing | argue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 stop | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | they | Ella from Kai not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | argue speech: disagree | gerund | they not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The person's habits from the idea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 habits | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 person | case |
| 4 | habits | habit | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 idea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 idea | det |
| 7 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 habits | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Paper from plastic in the recycling
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 plastic | case |
| 3 | plastic | plastic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Paper | nmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 recycling | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 recycling | det |
| 6 | recycling | recycling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Paper | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Home rubbish from school rubbish bins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rubbish | compound |
| 2 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 bins | case |
| 4 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rubbish | compound |
| 5 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bins | compound |
| 6 | bins | bin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rubbish | 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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