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Test 9 · ★ · Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow

Nan says «midlife crisis» about Mr Ali's car, and he overhears. What does it do to him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nan, crisis · What happens: say, overhear, do · To what, where: midlife crisis, Nan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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: Nan says «midlife crisis» about Mr Ali's car, and he overhears.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 crisis	punct
4	midlife	midlife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crisis	compound
5	crisis	crisis	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obj
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 crisis	punct
7	about	about	ADP	_	11 car	case
8	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Ali	compound
9	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 car	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Ali	case
11	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crisis	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 overhears	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 overhears	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 overhears	nsubj
15	overhears	overhear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Nan	midlife crisis				about Mr Ali's car	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent crisis=Topic
2	overhear	present	Nan						vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer

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 it do to him?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	crisis		Nan				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, it's just about his car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 car	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 car	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 car	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 car	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 car	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 car	nmod:poss
8	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					about his car	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It might hurt or embarrass him

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 hurt	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hurt	aux
3	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 embarrass	cc
5	embarrass	embarrass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hurt	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 embarrass	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	might	It						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
2	embarrass	infinitive		him = he					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

Option 3

It makes him want a bigger car

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 car	det
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 car	amod
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	him = he					tree rules
2	want	infinitive	him = he not said here	a bigger car					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot car=Theme

Option 4

It's a compliment about his age

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	4 compliment	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 compliment	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 compliment	det
4	compliment	compliment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 age	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 age	nmod:poss
7	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 compliment	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a compliment			about his age		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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