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Test 4 · ★ · Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them

Grandad, at the telly: "The world's gone bloody mad." Finn won't go out to play. What did Grandad mean?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Finn, Grandad · What happens: not go out, play, mean

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 51 «Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them» 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: Grandad, at the telly: "The world's gone bloody mad."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 telly	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 telly	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 telly	det
5	telly	telly	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grandad	appos
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 mad	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 mad	punct
8	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mad	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 world	case
11	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mad	amod
12	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mad	amod
13	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 telly	appos
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 mad	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 mad	punct

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

Sentence 2: Finn won't go out to play.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Finn	Finn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
2	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 play	mark
7	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	xcomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go out	future	Finn					out property	tree rules
2	play	to-infinitive	Finn not said here						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: What did Grandad mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past · do-support	Grandad						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Grandad has found out something secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 found	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 found	aux
3	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 found	compound:prt
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 found	obj
6	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 something	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find out	present · perfect · passive		Grandad					tree rules

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

He was grumbling; most people are having ordinary, peaceful days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grumbling	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grumbling	aux
3	grumbling	grumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 having	punct
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 having	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 having	aux
8	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 grumbling	conj
9	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 days	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ordinary	punct
11	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 days	amod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 having	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grumble speech: other	past · progressive	He						vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	present · progressive	most people				day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It is dangerous to go outside today

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	3 dangerous	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dangerous	cop
3	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dangerous	xcomp
6	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					dangerous property	tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive					today	outside property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The world really has gone mad since this morning, and nobody knows why yet

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 world	det
2	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	5 gone	advmod
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gone	xcomp
7	since	since	ADP	_	9 morning	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 morning	det
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knows	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 knows	cc
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 knows	nsubj
13	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	advcl
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 knows	advmod
15	yet	yet	ADV	_	13 knows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · perfect	the world				morning	mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	present	nobody				yet		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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