Test 4 · ★★★ · Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence

Which is the best reason to trust a scientific result?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, trust · To what, where: best reason, scientific result

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 reason	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reason	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 reason	amod
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 trust	mark
7	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 reason	acl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 result	det
9	scientific	scientific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 result	amod
10	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trust	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the best reason					tree rules
2	trust	to-infinitive		a scientific result					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Other people repeated the test and got the same result

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 repeated	nsubj
3	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 test	det
5	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 repeated	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 got	cc
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 repeated	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 result	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 result	amod
10	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	past	Other people	the test					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Eventuality
2	get	past	Other people not said here	the same result					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer result=Stimulus

Option 2

It was written in big letters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 written	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 written	aux:pass
3	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 letters	case
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 letters	amod
6	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 written	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past · passive		It		big letters			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in letter=Destination

Option 3

Many people would really like it to be true, so it must be

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 like	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 like	advmod
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 like	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 true	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 true	cop
9	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 like	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 be	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 be	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 be	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 be	aux
14	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 like	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like	would	Many people	it		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	Many people not said here		true property	tree rules
3	be	must	it			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

A famous person said it was true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 person	det
2	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 person	amod
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 true	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 true	cop
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a famous person						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	person					true property	tree rules

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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