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Test 3 · ★ · Bad news, protests and helping others

Overheard: «Bloody trains, strike again. Mind you, I'd strike too on that pay.» What does he think?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Overheard Bloody trains, you, I, he · What happens: overhear, strike, mind, think · To what, where: you, pay

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 32 «Bad news, protests and helping others» 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: «Bloody trains, strike again.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Overheard	overhear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 trains	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Overheard	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 trains	punct
4	Bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trains	amod
5	trains	train	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 strike	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 strike	punct
7	strike	strike	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 strike	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 strike	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	strike in a quote	infinitive	Overheard Bloody trains				again		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP 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: Mind you, I'd strike too on that pay.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mind	mind	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Mind	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 strike	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 strike	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 strike	aux
6	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mind	conj
7	too	too	ADV	_	6 strike	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 pay	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 pay	det
10	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 strike	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Mind	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Mind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mind	imperative	you not said here	you					vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	strike	would	I			that pay			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pay=Location

Sentence 3: What does he think?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 think	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · do-support	he						vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Happy the trains are not running

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Happy	happy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trains	det
3	trains	train	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 running	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 running	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 running	advmod
6	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Happy	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happy	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	not run	present · progressive	the trains						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Annoyed by the strike but understands why

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Annoyed	annoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 understands	advcl
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 strike	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 strike	det
4	strike	strike	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Annoyed	obl
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 understands	cc
6	understands	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 understands	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	annoy	participle						by the strike	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	understand	present							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Wants to become a train driver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
2	to	to	PART	_	3 become	mark
3	become	become	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 driver	det
5	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 driver	compound
6	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present		a train driver					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Thinks strikes are against the law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thinks	think	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 strikes	compound
2	strikes	strike	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 law	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 law	cop
4	against	against	ADP	_	6 law	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 law	det
6	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Thinks strikes					against the law	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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