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Test 8 · ★ · Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow

Sister: «I'm gonna tell everyone the Grants' garage is haunted, it's hilarious.» Why think twice?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, Sister, you · What happens: tell, haunt, be, think · To what, where: everyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 42 «Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow» 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: Sister: «I'm gonna tell everyone the Grants' garage is haunted, it's hilarious.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hilarious	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 tell	nsubj
5	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
6	gonna	gonna	ADV	_	7 tell	advmod
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sister	parataxis
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 haunted	nsubj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Grants	det
10	Grants	Grant	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 garage	nmod:poss
11	'	's	PART	_	10 Grants	case
12	garage	garage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 everyone	nmod
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 haunted	aux:pass
14	haunted	haunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 tell	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sister	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hilarious	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 hilarious	cop
18	hilarious	hilarious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 hilarious	punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 hilarious	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	I					gonna property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	haunt in a quote	present · passive		everyone					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	is in a quote	present	Sister					hilarious property	tree rules

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: Why think twice?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 think	advmod
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 think	advmod
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here					twice property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

The Grants might sell up and leave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Grants	det
2	Grants	Grant	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 sell	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sell	aux
4	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 sell	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 leave	cc
7	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sell	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell up	might	the Grants						vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	leave	infinitive	the Grants not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The garage might really be haunted by an old owner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 garage	det
2	garage	garage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 haunted	nsubj:pass
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 haunted	aux
4	really	really	ADV	_	6 haunted	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 haunted	aux:pass
6	haunted	haunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 owner	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 owner	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 owner	amod
10	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 haunted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haunt	might · passive	a old owner	the garage					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Mr Grant is a real neighbour, kids scream at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Grant	compound
2	Grant	grant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 neighbour	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 neighbour	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 neighbour	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 neighbour	amod
6	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 scream	punct
8	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 scream	nsubj
9	scream	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 neighbour	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 scream	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mr Grant	a real neighbour					tree rules
2	scream speech: express	present	kids					at him = he	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It might make a real ghost angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ghost	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ghost	amod
6	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	might	It	a real ghost				angry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material ghost=Product

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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