Test 4 · ★★ · Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a st…
Auntie Bev: "Look at her face, she's had work done, she looks nothing like in that film." The film was twenty years ago. What is most likely?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bev, work, film · What happens: look, have, do, be · To what, where: work, nothing
This is test 4 · ★★ 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 Bev: "Look at her face, she's had work done, she looks nothing like in that film."
vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at face=Theme
2
havein a quote
present · passive
Bev
work
tree rules
3
doin a quote
participle
work not said here
vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4
lookin a quote
present
Bev
nothing
like that film
vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nothing=Attribute
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.
vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent operation=Patient
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.