Test 5 · ★ · The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America…
Big brother: «'Megxit' means Meghan made Harry leave.» What's wrong with this?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Big brother, Meghan, Harry · What happens: mean, make, leave, be · To what, where: Harry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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: Big brother: «'Megxit' means Meghan made Harry leave.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 brother | amod |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Megxit | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 Megxit | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Megxit | punct |
| 6 | Megxit | Megxit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 brother | appos |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Megxit | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Meghan | Meghan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 made | nsubj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 means | ccomp |
| 11 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 made | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present | Big brother | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | past | Meghan | Harry | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | infinitive | Harry not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: What's wrong with this?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 wrong | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | with this; wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Nothing, the word proves it was Meghan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 proves | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 word | det |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 proves | nsubj |
| 5 | proves | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 Meghan | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Meghan | cop |
| 8 | Meghan | Meghan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 proves | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | present | Nothing | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | word | Meghan | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It's a headline word, not the full story
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 word | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 word | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 4 | headline | headline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 word | compound |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 story | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 story | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 story | amod |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 word | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a headline word and the full story | tree rules |
Option 3
It means Harry made Meghan leave instead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | ccomp |
| 5 | Meghan | Meghan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | xcomp |
| 7 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 6 leave | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | It | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make | past | Harry | Meghan | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | Meghan not said here | instead property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
It's the Palace's official name for it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 name | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 name | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Palace | det |
| 4 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 name | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Palace | case |
| 6 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 name | amod |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 name | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | the Palace's official name | for name | 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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