Test 1 · Coffee, tea, wine and the pub

Your sister says "Dad's grumpy before coffee 'cause he hates us." Put her right.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister, Dad, you · What happens: say, be, hate, put · To what, where: us, sister · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 27 «Coffee, tea, wine and the pub» 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 sister says "Dad's grumpy before coffee 'cause he hates us."

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 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 grumpy	punct
5	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 grumpy	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 grumpy	cop
7	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 coffee	case
9	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grumpy	obl
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 grumpy	punct
11	cause	cause	SCONJ	_	13 hates	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hates	nsubj
13	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 hates	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 hates	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 hates	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your sister				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	Dad		before coffee	grumpy property	tree rules
3	hate in a quote	present	Dad	us			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus

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 her 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	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem 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		sister			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

No, he is just slow and sleepy until the caffeine works

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 slow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 slow	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 slow	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 slow	advmod
6	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sleepy	cc
8	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 slow	conj
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 works	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 caffeine	det
11	caffeine	caffeine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 works	nsubj
12	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 slow	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	he	slow property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here		tree rules
3	work	present	the caffeine		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

No, he is grumpy because the coffee is always far too hot to drink

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 grumpy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grumpy	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grumpy	cop
5	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 hot	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coffee	det
8	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hot	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hot	cop
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 far	advmod
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 hot	advmod
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 hot	advmod
13	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grumpy	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 drink	mark
15	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hot	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	he	grumpy property	tree rules
2	is	present	the coffee	far, hot property	tree rules
3	drink	to-infinitive	the coffee not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, he only likes us after lunch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 likes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 likes	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 likes	advmod
5	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 likes	obj
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 lunch	case
8	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 likes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	he	us			after lunch		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot we=Theme

Option 4

Yes, coffee is how he stops hating us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 coffee	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stops	vocative
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stops	cop
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 stops	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stops	nsubj
7	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	hating	hate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stops	xcomp
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 hating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					coffee vocative; stop property	tree rules
2	hate	gerund	he not said here	us					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus

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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