Test 1 · Moving house and renting a home
Your brother panics: "For Sale sign means we move tomorrow!!" Put him right.
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, we, you · What happens: panic, mean, move, put · To what, where: brother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 of lesson 10 «Moving house and renting a home» of the adult life 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: Your brother panics: "For Sale sign means we move tomorrow!!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 panics | nsubj |
| 3 | panics | panic | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
| 6 | For | for | ADP | _ | 8 sign | case |
| 7 | Sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sign | compound |
| 8 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | obl |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 panics | conj |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 move | nsubj |
| 11 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 means | ccomp |
| 12 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 move | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | !! | !! | PUNCT | _ | 11 move | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 move | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | panic | present | Your brother | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present | Your brother not said here | for Sale sign | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | move in a quote | present | we | tomorrow | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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: Put him right.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obj |
| 3 | right | right | ADV | _ | 1 Put | advmod |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | brother | right property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
The options
Option 1
The sign means the house is falling down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sign | det |
| 2 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 falling | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 falling | aux |
| 7 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 means | ccomp |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 falling | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | the sign | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fall down | present · progressive | the house | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
The sign means someone else lives there now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sign | det |
| 2 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 lives | nsubj |
| 5 | else | else | ADV | _ | 4 someone | advmod |
| 6 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | ccomp |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lives | advmod |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lives | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | the sign | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | live | present | someone | there | now | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
He is right, you leave the very next morning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 leave | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 leave | nsubj |
| 6 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 morning | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 next | advmod |
| 9 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 morning | amod |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leave | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | present | you | morning | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Selling usually takes months, not days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Selling | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 takes | nsubj |
| 2 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 3 takes | advmod |
| 3 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 takes | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 days | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 days | advmod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 takes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | gerund | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | take | present | day; month | usually property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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