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Test 11 · ★★ · Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kind stories

Dad reads: "Actor gives waitress a £1,000 tip." Mum smiles: "Now that's gossip I like." Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad, Actor, Mum, that, I · What happens: read, give, smile, gossip, like · To what, where: £ tip, waitress, gossip · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 48 «Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kind stories» 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: Dad reads: "Actor gives waitress a £1,000 tip."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reads	nsubj
2	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 gives	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 gives	punct
5	Actor	actor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gives	nsubj
6	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reads	conj
7	waitress	waitress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gives	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tip	det
9	£	£	SYM	_	11 tip	compound
10	1,000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 £	nummod
11	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gives	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reads	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 reads	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	Dad						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give in a quote	present	Actor	a £ tip	waitress				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent waitress=Recipient tip=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: Mum smiles: "Now that's gossip I like."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smiles	nsubj
2	smiles	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 smiles	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 gossip	punct
5	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 gossip	advmod
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 gossip	nsubj
7	's	's	PART	_	6 that	case
8	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smiles	parataxis
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 like	nsubj
10	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gossip	acl:relcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gossip	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 gossip	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smile	present	Mum						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	gossip speech: other in a quote		that				now		tree rules
3	like in a quote	present	I	gossip not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gossip=Theme

Sentence 3: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It's a scandal about the restaurant

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	4 scandal	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 scandal	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 scandal	det
4	scandal	scandal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 restaurant	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 restaurant	det
7	restaurant	restaurant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scandal	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a scandal				about the restaurant	tree rules

Option 2

It's a secret the waitress wanted kept

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	4 secret	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 secret	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 secret	det
4	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 waitress	det
6	waitress	waitress	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wanted	nsubj
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 secret	acl:relcl
8	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a secret					tree rules
2	want	past	the waitress	a secret not said here					tree rules
3	keep not said to happen	participle	a secret not said here						vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It's a kind story that hurts nobody

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 story	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 story	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 hurts	nsubj
7	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 story	acl:relcl
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 hurts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a kind story					tree rules
2	hurt	present	a kind story	nobody					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nobody=Patient

Option 4

It proves the actor is very rich

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 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 actor	det
4	actor	actor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rich	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rich	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 rich	advmod
7	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 proves	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the actor					rich property	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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