Test 7 · ★★ · A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wr…
Which is the right order in a real trial?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: right order, real trial
This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 191 «A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong» 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 order | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 order | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 order | det |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 order | amod |
| 5 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 trial | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 trial | det |
| 8 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 trial | amod |
| 9 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 order | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 order | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the right order | a real trial | 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Evidence, then verdict, then sentence if guilty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 verdict | punct |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 verdict | advmod |
| 4 | verdict | verdict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Evidence | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sentence | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 sentence | advmod |
| 7 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Evidence | appos |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 guilty | mark |
| 9 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sentence | acl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Sentence first, then the verdict, then all the evidence at the end
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 1 Sentence | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 verdict | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 verdict | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 verdict | det |
| 6 | verdict | verdict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sentence | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 evidence | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 evidence | advmod |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 evidence | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 evidence | det |
| 11 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sentence | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 end | det |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 evidence | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Sentence, then evidence, then verdict
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 evidence | punct |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 evidence | advmod |
| 4 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sentence | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 verdict | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 verdict | advmod |
| 7 | verdict | verdict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sentence | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Verdict, then evidence, then sentence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Verdict | verdict | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 evidence | punct |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 evidence | advmod |
| 4 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Verdict | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sentence | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 sentence | advmod |
| 7 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Verdict | conj |
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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