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Test 11 · ★★ · Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation

Mum: «Hartleys' builders are cowboys, the extension FELL DOWN!» Which one word made it a disaster?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: builders, extension, one word · What happens: be, fall down, make · To what, where: cowboys, extension

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 43 «Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation» 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: Mum: «Hartleys' builders are cowboys, the extension FELL DOWN!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 cowboys	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 cowboys	punct
4	Hartleys	hartley	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 builders	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 Hartleys	case
6	builders	builder	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cowboys	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cowboys	cop
8	cowboys	cowboy	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mum	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 FELL	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 extension	det
11	extension	extension	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 FELL	nsubj
12	FELL	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cowboys	acl:relcl
13	DOWN	down	ADV	_	12 FELL	advmod
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 cowboys	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 cowboys	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Hartleys's builders	cowboys					tree rules
2	fall down in a quote	past	the extension	cowboys not said here				down property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient cowboy=Result

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: Which one word made it a disaster?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 word	compound
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 disaster	det
7	disaster	disaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	one word	extension					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary disaster=Product

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

«Hartleys» instead of «neighbours»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Hartleys	punct
2	Hartleys	hartley	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Hartleys	punct
4	instead	instead	ADV	_	7 neighbours	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 neighbours	case
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 neighbours	punct
7	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Hartleys	nmod
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Hartleys	punct

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

Option 2

«Extension» instead of «room»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Extension	punct
2	Extension	extension	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Extension	punct
4	instead	instead	ADV	_	7 room	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 room	case
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 room	punct
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Extension	nmod
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Extension	punct

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

Option 3

«Builders» instead of «workmen»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Builders	punct
2	Builders	Builder	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Builders	punct
4	instead	instead	ADV	_	7 workmen	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 workmen	case
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 workmen	punct
7	workmen	workman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Builders	nmod
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Builders	punct

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

«Fell» instead of «taken down»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Fell	punct
2	Fell	fell	PROPN	Typo=Yes	root	root
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Fell	punct
4	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	7 taken	mark
5	of	of	ADP	_	4 instead	fixed
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 taken	punct
7	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Fell	advcl
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 taken	compound:prt
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Fell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take down in a quote	participle							vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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