Syntactic tests & Universal Dependencies

Syntactic tests are used to identify the constituents of a sentence.

• True

• False

Using the reduction test, which of the following can't be omitted in the following sentence:

This year she is invited to hold a speech at the parliament.

• This year

• to hold a speech

• she is invited

• at the parliament

Which of the commutations is valid?

• He paints a picture tomorrow for the competition in Zurich.

  
  

• For the competition in Zurich, he paints a picture tomorrow.

• For the competition tomorrow, he paints a picture.

• Tomorrow, he paints a picture in Zurich for the competition.

Which is not a syntactic test?

• Predicate changing

• Answer fragments

• Wh-fronting

• Rephrasing

What is the dependency type of "it"?

• expl

• cop

• csubj

• case

What is the dependency type of "are"?

• obl

• case

• expl

• cop

What is the dependency of "session"?

• nmod

• case

• obl

• dep

Regex Recap: What does . NOT capture?

• Letters

• Digits

• .

• New line characters

With which pattern do you find dependencies in grew?

• pattern [ x-[obj]->y ]

• pattern { x -[obj]-> y }

• pattern {-[obj]->}

• pattern [ x -{obj}-> y]

Which of the following complex patterns is correct?

• pattern { x[upos=VERB] , -[obj]->y }

• pattern { [upos=VERB] ; x-[obj]->y }

• pattern { x[upos=VERB]-[obj]->y }

• pattern { x[upos=VERB] ; x-[obj]->y }