Test 1 · ★ · The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
A boy in Melbourne and his cousin in London both look out of the window in January. What do they see?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: look out, see · To what, where: window
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 45 «The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand» 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 boy in Melbourne and his cousin in London both look out of the window in January.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 look | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Melbourne | case |
| 4 | Melbourne | Melbourne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cousin | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 London | case |
| 9 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cousin | nmod |
| 10 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 look | nsubj |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 window | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 window | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 window | det |
| 15 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 look | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 January | case |
| 17 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 window | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | present | a boy in Melbourne and Melbourne's cousin in London | the window in January | 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: What do they see?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 see | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · do-support | boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Winter in both cities
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 cities | case |
| 3 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 cities | det |
| 4 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Winter | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Winter in Melbourne and summer in London
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Melbourne | case |
| 3 | Melbourne | Melbourne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Winter | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 summer | cc |
| 5 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Winter | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 London | case |
| 7 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 summer | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Summer in Melbourne and winter in London
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Melbourne | case |
| 3 | Melbourne | Melbourne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Summer | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 winter | cc |
| 5 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Summer | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 London | case |
| 7 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 winter | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Summer in both cities
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 cities | case |
| 3 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 cities | det |
| 4 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Summer | 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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