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Test 5 · Coffee, tea, wine and the pub

Overheard at a wedding: "Look at Shona, she's well merry, dancing on the chairs." What does "merry" mean here?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Shona, merry · What happens: overhear, look, be, dance, mean · To what, where: chairs

This is test 5 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: Overheard at a wedding: "Look at Shona, she's well merry, dancing on the chairs."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Overheard	overhear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wedding	amod
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 wedding	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wedding	det
4	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Look	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Look	punct
7	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 wedding	parataxis
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 Shona	case
9	Shona	Shona	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Look	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 merry	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 merry	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 merry	cop
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 merry	advmod
14	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Look	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dancing	punct
16	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 merry	advcl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 chairs	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 chairs	det
19	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 dancing	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 Look	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overhear	participle							vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
2	look in a quote	infinitive						at Shona	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at shona=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	Shona					merry, well property	tree rules
4	dance in a quote	gerund	Shona not said here			the chairs			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on chair=Location

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: What does "merry" mean here?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mean	aux
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 merry	punct
4	merry	merry	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mean	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 merry	punct
6	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 mean	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	merry			here			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Getting married herself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Getting	get	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 married	aux:pass
2	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 married	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	gerund · passive		herself = she					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: herself=Patient

Option 2

Feeling sick and tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Feeling	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tired	cc
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sick	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	gerund						sick property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tipsy from drinking alcohol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tipsy	tipsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	from	from	SCONJ	_	3 drinking	mark
3	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Tipsy	advcl
4	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drinking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund		alcohol					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Patient

Option 4

Very angry with the band

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 angry	advmod
2	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 band	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 band	det
5	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 angry	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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