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Test 4 · ★★ · Modern art: "my little brother could do that"

Ivan whispers, "Yo, this is giving space." What does he mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ivan, this · What happens: whisper, give, mean · To what, where: space · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 18 «Modern art: "my little brother could do that"» of the arts 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: Ivan whispers, "Yo, this is giving space."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 whispers	nsubj
2	whispers	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 giving	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 giving	punct
5	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	9 giving	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Yo	punct
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 giving	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 giving	aux
9	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 whispers	ccomp
10	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 giving	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 whispers	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 whispers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	present	Ivan						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give in a quote	present · progressive	this	space					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=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: What does he mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	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	present · do-support	Ivan						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It needs a lot more space in it

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 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lot	det
4	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needs	obj
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 needs	advmod
6	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 more	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 space	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	It	a lot					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme

Option 2

He wants to leave

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	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 leave	mark
4	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It feels like being in outer space

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 feels	nsubj
2	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	7 space	case
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 space	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 space	case
6	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 space	amod
7	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feels	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	It						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	gerund						like outer space	tree rules

Option 4

It is very crowded with people

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 crowded	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 crowded	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 crowded	advmod
4	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crowded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					with people; crowded 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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