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Test 9 · ★★ · Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation

Nan: «Corner house, someone died there, nobody'll buy it now.» Who could this story really harm?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: someone, Nan · What happens: die, buy · To what, where: Corner house, house

This is test 9 · ★★ 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: Nan: «Corner house, someone died there, nobody'll buy it now.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 buy	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 house	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 house	punct
4	Corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 house	compound
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nan	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 died	punct
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 died	nsubj
8	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 house	acl:relcl
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 died	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nan	punct
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 buy	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 buy	aux
13	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 buy	obj
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 buy	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 buy	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 buy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die in a quote	past	someone	Corner house not said here		there			tree rules
2	buy in a quote	future	Nan	house			now		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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: Who could this story really harm?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 Who	aux
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 could	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 harm	advmod
6	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 story	nmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Who	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Nobody, it's just a spooky tale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 tale	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nobody	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tale	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tale	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 tale	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tale	det
7	spooky	spooky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tale	amod
8	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nobody	a spooky tale					tree rules

Option 2

The ghost living in the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ghost	det
2	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 ghost	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 living	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	gerund	the ghost not said here			the house			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location

Option 3

The children who tell the story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 children	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the children	the story					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The family trying to sell it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 family	acl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sell	mark
5	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	gerund	the family not said here						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sell not said to happen	to-infinitive	the family not said here	family					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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