Test 6 · ★ · Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel
Ruby's friend: "Look at Ruby, learning stuff. Character development." What did Ruby do?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, Ruby · What happens: look, learn, do · To what, where: stuff
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 190 «Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel» 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's friend: "Look at Ruby, learning stuff.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ruby | case |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Look | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Look | punct |
| 6 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 friend | acl:relcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 Ruby | case |
| 8 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Look | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 learning | punct |
| 10 | learning | learn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 Look | advcl |
| 11 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 learning | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 friend | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | infinitive | Ruby's friend not said here | at Ruby | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ruby=Theme | ||||
| 2 | learn in a quote | gerund | Ruby's friend not said here | stuff | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Topic |
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: Character development."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 development | compound |
| 2 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 development | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 development | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: What did Ruby do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · do-support | Ruby | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Said "thanks, I didn't know that"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Said | Said | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thanks | compound |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
| 3 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 know | advmod |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thanks | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 know | obl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | past · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
Argued with the teacher
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Argued | argue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 teacher | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 teacher | det |
| 4 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Argued | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue speech: disagree | participle | with the teacher | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with teacher=Co-Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Said tomatoes are vegetables again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tomatoes | amod |
| 2 | tomatoes | tomato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 vegetables | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 vegetables | cop |
| 4 | vegetables | vegetable | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 vegetables | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Said tomatoes | vegetables | again | tree rules |
Option 4
Ignored the teacher
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ignored | ignore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 teacher | det |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ignored | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ignore | participle | the teacher | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Theme |
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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