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Auntie Jen: "That star's a total nightmare, everyone says, it was on a gossip site." What does "everyone says" usually mean?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: star, Auntie, everyone · What happens: be, say, mean · To what, where: total nightmare, gossip site · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 46 «Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story» 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: "That star's a total nightmare, everyone says, it was on a gossip site."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Auntie	Auntie	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 says	nsubj
2	Jen	Jen	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Auntie	flat
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 nightmare	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 nightmare	punct
5	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 star	det
6	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nightmare	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 nightmare	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 nightmare	det
9	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nightmare	amod
10	nightmare	nightmare	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Auntie	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Auntie	punct
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 says	nsubj
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 site	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 site	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 site	cop
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 site	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 site	det
19	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 site	compound
20	site	site	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 site	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 site	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	that star	a total nightmare					tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Auntie						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	past	star			a gossip site			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 does "everyone says" usually mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 says	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	aux
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 mean	punct
7	usually	usually	ADV	_	8 mean	advmod
8	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present · do-support	everyone						tree rules
2	mean	infinitive						usually property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Every person on the planet agrees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 agrees	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 planet	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 planet	det
5	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 person	nmod
6	agrees	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present	every person on the planet						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

One person said it, without a name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 person	nummod
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 name	punct
6	without	without	ADP	_	8 name	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 name	det
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	One person	it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

A judge decided it in court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 judge	det
2	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 decided	nsubj
3	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 decided	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 court	case
6	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 decided	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	past	a judge	it		court			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4

The star said it about himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 star	det
2	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obj
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 himself	case
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the star	it				about star	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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