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Test 8 · ★★ · Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation

Grandad: «Mr Novak? Probably a burglar, out all night.» Then Mr Novak waves from the bus in a hospital uniform. What does it show?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mr, uniform · What happens: wave, show · To what, where: bus

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Grandad: «Mr Novak?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Mr	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 Mr	punct
4	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Grandad	conj
5	Novak	Novak	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Mr	flat
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Grandad	punct

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

Sentence 2: Probably a burglar, out all night.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Probably	probably	ADV	_	3 burglar	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 burglar	det
3	burglar	burglar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 night	punct
5	out	out	ADV	_	7 night	advmod
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burglar	appos
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 burglar	punct
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 burglar	punct

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

Sentence 3: Then Mr Novak waves from the bus in a hospital uniform.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 waves	advmod
2	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 waves	nsubj
3	Novak	Novak	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Mr	flat
4	waves	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 bus	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bus	det
7	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waves	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 uniform	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 uniform	det
10	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 uniform	compound
11	uniform	uniform	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waves	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 waves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	present	Mr			the bus	then	in a hospital uniform	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in uniform=Theme

Sentence 4: 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	uniform						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Odd hours often mean a night-shift job

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hours	amod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mean	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 mean	advmod
4	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 job	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shift	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 night	punct
8	shift	shift	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 job	compound
9	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Odd hours	a shift job				often property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Topic

Option 2

Hospital workers never sleep at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 workers	compound
2	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sleep	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 sleep	advmod
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sleep	present	Hospital workers			all			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Grandad was right to be suspicious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 right	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 suspicious	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 suspicious	cop
6	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 right	csubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Grandad					right property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive						suspicious property	tree rules

Option 4

Mr Novak is in disguise as a porter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 disguise	nsubj
2	Novak	Novak	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mr	flat
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 disguise	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 disguise	case
5	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 porter	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 porter	det
8	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 disguise	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Mr			disguise		as a porter	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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