Test 12 · ★★★ · Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence

Mia says if ur prediction is wrong the experiment failed. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mia, prediction, experiment, ur · What happens: say, be, fail, predict · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 91 «Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence» 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	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 wrong	mark
4	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 prediction	nmod:poss
5	prediction	prediction	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wrong	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wrong	cop
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 failed	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 experiment	det
9	experiment	experiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 failed	nsubj
10	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 true	punct
12	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 failed	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mia		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	ur's prediction	wrong property	tree rules
3	fail	past	the experiment	true property	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	predict		ur		nom prediction «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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

No, a wrong prediction is still useful, because it teaches you something

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 useful	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 prediction	det
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 prediction	amod
5	prediction	prediction	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 useful	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 useful	cop
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 useful	advmod
8	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 teaches	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 teaches	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 teaches	nsubj
12	teaches	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 useful	advcl
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 teaches	iobj
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 teaches	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a wrong prediction				still	useful property	tree rules
2	teach speech: other	present	prediction	something	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Topic

Option 2

Yes, you must change the results to match

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 change	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 change	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 results	det
7	results	result	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 change	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 match	mark
9	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 change	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	must	you	the results					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Patient
2	match	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3

No, but you must never write it down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 write	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 write	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 write	cc
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 write	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 write	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 write	advmod
7	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 write	obj
9	down	down	ADP	_	7 write	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not write down	must	you	it					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Yes, a wrong prediction makes the test useless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 makes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 prediction	det
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 prediction	amod
5	prediction	prediction	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	nsubj
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 test	det
8	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	obj
9	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	a wrong prediction	the test				useless property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset test=Product

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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