Test 3 · ★ · Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa
Auntie Sue, sipping tea: "Course they're splitting, sources close to them said so on the telly this morning." How sure is it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Auntie, Course · What happens: sip, split, say, be · To what, where: tea, sources, telly · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 53 «Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa» 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 Sue, sipping tea: "Course they're splitting, sources close to them said so on the telly this morning."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Auntie | Auntie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 2 | Sue | Sue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Auntie | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sipping | punct |
| 4 | sipping | sip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Auntie | acl |
| 5 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sipping | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 splitting | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 splitting | punct |
| 8 | Course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 splitting | nsubj |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 splitting | nsubj |
| 10 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 splitting | aux |
| 11 | splitting | split | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sipping | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sources | punct |
| 13 | sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 splitting | obj |
| 14 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sources | amod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 close | obl |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 said | advmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 telly | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 telly | det |
| 21 | telly | telly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obl |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 morning | det |
| 23 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sip | gerund | Auntie not said here | tea | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Patient | ||||
| 2 | split in a quote | present · progressive | Course | sources | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent source=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Auntie | the telly | morning | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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: How sure is it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 sure | advmod |
| 2 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sure | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sure | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 sure | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Course | sure property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Not sure; nobody named has said it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 sure | advmod |
| 2 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 4 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 nobody | acl |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | aux |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sure | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present · perfect | nobody | it | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
Option 2
Sure, the couple must have told them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sure | sure | INTJ | _ | 7 told | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sure | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 couple | det |
| 4 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 told | aux |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | iobj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | must · perfect · passive | the couple | them = they | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient they=Topic |
Option 3
Sure, because Auntie Sue believes it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sure | sure | INTJ | _ | 6 believes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 believes | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 believes | mark |
| 4 | Auntie | Auntie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 believes | nsubj |
| 5 | Sue | Sue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Auntie | flat |
| 6 | believes | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 believes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | Auntie | it | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 4
Totally sure, because it was on the telly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Totally | totally | ADV | _ | 2 sure | advmod |
| 2 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 telly | punct |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 telly | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 telly | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 telly | cop |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 telly | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 telly | det |
| 9 | telly | telly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sure | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | the telly | 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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