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Test 11 · ★★★ · Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret

Your friend reads a parody account: "the PM says school is cancelled forever!!" What gives it away?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend, PM · What happens: read, say, cancel, give away · To what, where: parody account, school, account · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 50 «Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret» 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: Your friend reads a parody account: "the PM says school is cancelled forever!!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reads	nsubj
3	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 account	det
5	parody	parody	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 account	compound
6	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reads	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 PM	det
10	PM	p.m.	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reads	conj
12	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cancelled	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 cancelled	aux:pass
14	cancelled	cancel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 says	ccomp
15	forever	forever	ADV	_	14 cancelled	advmod
16	!!	!!	PUNCT	_	14 cancelled	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 cancelled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	Your friend	a parody account					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	the PM						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cancel in a quote	present · passive		school				forever 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 gives it away?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gives	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 gives	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 gives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give away	present		account				away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme

The options

Option 1

School can only be cancelled in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	School	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cancelled	nsubj:pass
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 cancelled	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 cancelled	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 cancelled	aux:pass
5	cancelled	cancel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 summer	case
7	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cancelled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cancel	can · passive		School			summer		tree rules

Option 2

The Prime Minister always posts at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Minister	det
2	Prime	Prime	PROPN	_	3 Minister	compound
3	Minister	Minister	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 posts	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 posts	advmod
5	posts	post	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 posts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	post	present	the Prime Minister				night	always property	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The account's name shows it's a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 account	det
2	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 name	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 account	case
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shows	nsubj
5	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 joke	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 joke	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 joke	det
9	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	the account's name						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	name	a joke					tree rules
3	name		the account						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

The post has lots of exclamation marks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 post	det
2	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 marks	case
6	exclamation	exclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 marks	compound
7	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lots	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the post	lots of exclamation marks					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=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.

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