Test 8 · ★ · The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America…
Nan: «William and Harry walked side by side, they're best mates again, I can tell.» What can a short clip really show?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nan, William, I, short clip · What happens: walk, be, tell, show · To what, where: side, best mates · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ 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: Nan: «William and Harry walked side by side, they're best mates again, I can tell.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nan | nan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 William | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 William | punct |
| 4 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Nan | appos |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Harry | cc |
| 6 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 William | conj |
| 7 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walked | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mates | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 mates | nsubj |
| 13 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 mates | cop |
| 14 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 mates | amod |
| 15 | mates | mate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 walked | obl |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 mates | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tell | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 tell | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 tell | aux |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 walked | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 tell | punct |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk in a quote | past | Nan | side | by side | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent side=Theme by side=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | William | best mates | again | tree rules | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | can | I | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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: What can a short clip really show?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 show | obj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 show | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 clip | det |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 clip | amod |
| 5 | clip | clip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 show | nsubj |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 show | advmod |
| 7 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 show | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | can | a short clip | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
That they had a fight off camera
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fight | det |
| 5 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 had | compound:prt |
| 7 | camera | camera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have off | past | That | a fight | tree rules |
Option 2
Everything they said to each other
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 each | case |
| 5 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 each | fixed |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Everything | each | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient |
Option 3
That they will never argue again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 argue | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 argue | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 argue | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 argue | advmod |
| 5 | argue | argue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 argue | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not argue speech: disagree | future | That | again | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
That they walked and talked, no more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 talked | cc |
| 5 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 more | punct |
| 7 | no | no | ADV | _ | 8 more | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 walked | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | That | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | talk | past | That not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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