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Test 10 · ★ · The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America…

Mum: «Spare's sold millions, the fastest non-fiction ever in the UK, they said.» Which word shows she's reporting?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mum, word · What happens: sell, say, show, report · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 44 «The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book» 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: «Spare's sold millions, the fastest non-fiction ever in the UK, they said.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 millions	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 millions	punct
4	Spare	Spare	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 millions	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Spare	case
6	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 millions	amod
7	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mum	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 non-fiction	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 non-fiction	det
10	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 non-fiction	amod
11	non-fiction	non-fiction	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 millions	conj
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 non-fiction	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 UK	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 UK	det
15	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 non-fiction	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mum	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell in a quote	participle							vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Mum and Spare's sold millions and the fastest non-fiction in the UK						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 word shows she's reporting?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 reporting	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 reporting	aux
6	reporting	report	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 shows	ccomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	which word						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	report	present · progressive	word						vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

«Spare»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Spare	punct
2	Spare	Spare	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Spare	punct

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

Option 2

«millions»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 millions	punct
2	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 millions	punct

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

Option 3

«fastest»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 fastest	punct
2	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 fastest	punct

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

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

«they said»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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