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Test 3 · ★★ · Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation

Mum: «Evans' fortieth anniversary party, the whole street's invited!» Is this gossip true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gossip · What happens: invite, be · To what, where: whole street

This is test 3 · ★★ 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: «Evans' fortieth anniversary party, the whole street's invited!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 party	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 party	punct
4	Evans	evan	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 party	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 Evans	case
6	fortieth	fortieth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 party	amod
7	anniversary	anniversary	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 party	compound
8	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mum	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 invited	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 street	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 street	amod
12	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 invited	nsubj:pass
13	's	's	PART	_	12 street	case
14	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 party	parataxis
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 invited	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 party	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invite in a quote	participle · passive		the whole street					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient

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: Is this gossip true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 gossip	det
3	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 true	nsubj
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this gossip					true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, they've been married for twenty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 married	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 married	nsubj:pass
4	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 married	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 married	aux:pass
6	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
8	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 married	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	present · perfect · passive		they			year		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, they sent invitations in writing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	invitations	invitation	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sent	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 writing	case
7	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	they	invitations		writing			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme in writing=Destination

Option 3

No, it's just a rumour going round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 rumour	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rumour	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rumour	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 rumour	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rumour	det
7	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 rumour	acl
9	round	round	ADV	_	8 going	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a rumour					tree rules
2	go round	gerund	a rumour not said here					round property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Maybe, nobody has asked the Evanses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maybe	maybe	ADV	_	5 asked	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Maybe	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 asked	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 asked	aux
5	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Evanses	det
7	Evanses	Evans	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 asked	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present · perfect	nobody		the Evanses			maybe property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent evans=Recipient

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