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Test 6 · ★ · Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa

Grandad, grumbling: "That host asked her how much she weighs, live on telly! Disgraceful." Who is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grandad, host · What happens: grumble, ask, weigh, live, be · To what, where: her, much, telly · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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: Grandad, grumbling: "That host asked her how much she weighs, live on telly!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grumbling	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grumbling	punct
3	grumbling	grumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct
6	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 host	det
7	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	nsubj
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grumbling	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	iobj
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 weighs	obj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 weighs	nsubj
13	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 live	punct
15	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grumbling	parataxis
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 telly	case
17	telly	telly	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 live	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 grumbling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grumble speech: other	gerund	Grandad						vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	past	that host		her = she				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	weigh in a quote	present	host	much					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value
4	live in a quote	present				telly			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on telly=Location

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: Disgraceful."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Disgraceful	Disgraceful	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Disgraceful	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Disgraceful	punct

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

Sentence 3: Who is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Grandad; people's bodies are their own business

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 business	punct
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bodies	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 people	case
5	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 business	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 business	cop
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 business	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 business	amod
9	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grandad	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	people's bodies	bodies's own business					tree rules

Option 2

The host; it was only a joke, so it's fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 host	det
2	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 joke	nsubj
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 host	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 joke	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 joke	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 joke	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 joke	det
8	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fine	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 fine	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fine	expl
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fine	cop
13	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 joke	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the host	a joke					tree rules
2	is	present						fine property	tree rules

Option 3

The host; famous people must answer anything they're asked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 host	det
2	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 answer	punct
4	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 answer	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 answer	aux
7	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 host	conj
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 answer	obj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asked	nsubj
10	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 asked	aux:pass
11	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 anything	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	must	famous people	anything					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	present · passive		people					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 4

Nobody; weight is a normal thing to ask

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 weight	compound
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Nobody	punct
3	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thing	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 ask	mark
9	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nobody weight	a normal thing					tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive							vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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