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Test 6 · ★ · The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America…

Auntie Jen, reading a magazine: «A guest said the bride was rude to the staff!» What kind of story is this?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guest, bride, this · What happens: read, say, be · To what, where: magazine, kind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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: Auntie Jen, reading a magazine: «A guest said the bride was rude to the staff!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Auntie	Auntie	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Jen	Jen	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Auntie	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reading	punct
4	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Auntie	conj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 magazine	det
6	magazine	magazine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reading	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 guest	det
10	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reading	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bride	det
13	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rude	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 rude	cop
15	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	ccomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 staff	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 staff	det
18	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rude	obl
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Auntie	punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Auntie	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	gerund		a magazine					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magazine=Topic
2	say speech: express in a quote	past	a guest						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	past	the bride					to the staff; rude property	tree rules

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 kind of story is this?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 story	case
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 kind	cop
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 kind	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 kind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this	what kind				of story	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

An official announcement from the Palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 announcement	det
2	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 announcement	amod
3	announcement	announcement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 Palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Palace	det
6	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 announcement	nmod

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

Option 2

A fact from Meghan's own statement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fact	det
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	7 statement	case
4	Meghan	Meghan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 statement	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Meghan	case
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 statement	amod
7	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fact	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state		Meghan						nom statement «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A tabloid claim, not a confirmed fact

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 claim	det
2	tabloid	tabloid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 claim	amod
3	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fact	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 fact	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fact	det
7	confirmed	confirm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 fact	amod
8	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 claim	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confirm	participle							vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

Something everyone saw on television

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 everyone	compound
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 television	case
5	television	television	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	everyone			television			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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