Test 1 · ★ · People and society — communities, work, money and rules
A fisherman swaps three fish for a farmer's basket of apples. What is this called?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fisherman · What happens: swap, call · To what, where: three fish, this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 58 «People and society — communities, work, money and rules» 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 fisherman swaps three fish for a farmer's basket of apples.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fisherman | det |
| 2 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swaps | nsubj |
| 3 | swaps | swap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 fish | nummod |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 swaps | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 basket | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 farmer | det |
| 8 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 basket | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 farmer | case |
| 10 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swaps | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 apples | case |
| 12 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 basket | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swaps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swap | present | a fisherman | three fish | for a farmer's basket of apples | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent fish=Theme for basket=Co-Theme |
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 is this called?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 called | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | this | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Result |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Saving
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saving | save | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | gerund | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Bartering
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bartering | bartering | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Taxing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taxing | taxing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Borrowing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Borrowing | borrowing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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