Test 3 · Check the claim, not the person
A Scouse mate: "Ben's football is dead bad, la, but he's sound on the Moon." Is he reasoning well?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Scouse mate, Ben · What happens: be, reason · To what, where: sound, Moon
This is test 3 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: A Scouse mate: "Ben's football is dead bad, la, but he's sound on the Moon."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mate | det |
| 2 | Scouse | scouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | compound |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bad | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 bad | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 bad | punct |
| 6 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 football | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Ben | case |
| 8 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bad | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bad | cop |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bad | amod |
| 11 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 la | punct |
| 13 | la | la | X | _ | 11 bad | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sound | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 sound | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sound | nsubj |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sound | cop |
| 18 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bad | parataxis |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 Moon | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Moon | det |
| 21 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 sound | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 bad | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 bad | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | a Scouse mate | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Ben | sound | the Moon | 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: Is he reasoning well?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reasoning | aux |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reasoning | nsubj |
| 3 | reasoning | reason | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 reasoning | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 reasoning | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reason | present · progressive | Ben | well property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
No; nobody knows what causes tides
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 knows | discourse |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 knows | nsubj |
| 4 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 causes | nsubj |
| 6 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 knows | ccomp |
| 7 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 causes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | nobody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | cause | present | tides | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition tide=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yes; football has nothing to do with tides
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 has | discourse |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 has | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 nothing | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 tides | case |
| 9 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 do | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | football | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | football not said here | nothing not said here | with tides | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
No; bad footballers know nothing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | discourse |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 3 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 footballers | amod |
| 4 | footballers | footballer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 know | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | bad footballers | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
Option 4
Yes, but only because Ben is his mate from school
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 mate | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 mate | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 mate | advmod |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 mate | mark |
| 6 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 mate | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 mate | cop |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mate | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 school | case |
| 11 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mate | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Ben | Ben's mate | school | tree rules |
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