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Test 10 · Our street: who parked where and who won what

Auntie Jen: «Wilsons' lad, police round, told ya.» Later: the police came because the Wilsons had been burgled. What does it show?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: police · What happens: tell, come, burgle, show · To what, where: Wilsons · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 41 «Our street: who parked where and who won what» 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: Auntie Jen: «Wilsons' lad, police round, told ya.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Auntie	Auntie	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Jen	Jen	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Auntie	flat
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 lad	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 lad	punct
5	Wilsons	wilson	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lad	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 Wilsons	case
7	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Auntie	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 police	punct
9	police	police	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lad	conj
10	round	round	ADV	_	9 police	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ya	punct
12	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 ya	amod
13	ya	ya	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lad	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lad	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 lad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	participle							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: Later: the police came because the Wilsons had been burgled.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 came	advmod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 police	det
4	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 burgled	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Wilsons	det
8	Wilsons	Wilson	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 burgled	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 burgled	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 burgled	aux:pass
11	burgled	burgle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 came	advcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the police					late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	burgle	past · perfect · passive		the Wilsons					vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source

Sentence 3: What does it show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · do-support	police						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1

Police only visit bad families

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 visit	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 visit	advmod
3	visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 families	amod
5	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 visit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	present	Police	bad families					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Co-Agent

Option 2

Auntie Jen guessed right after all, as she usually does

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Auntie	Auntie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 guessed	nsubj
2	Jen	Jen	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Auntie	flat
3	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	right	right	ADV	_	3 guessed	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 guessed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 does	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 does	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 does	nsubj
10	usually	usually	ADV	_	11 does	advmod
11	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 guessed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	past	Auntie				after all	right property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	Auntie					usually property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Pinning a story on a person can hurt the innocent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pinning	pin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 hurt	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 story	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pinning	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 person	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pinning	obl
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hurt	aux
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 innocent	det
10	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pin	gerund		a story				on a person	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent story=Patient on person=Co-Patient
2	hurt	can	Pinning	the innocent					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer innocent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The lad must have done something else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 done	nsubj:pass
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 done	aux
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 done	obj
7	else	else	ADV	_	6 something	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	must · perfect · passive		the lad					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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