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Test 6 · Dances of the world and dancing at parties

A girl from Glasgow at a Greek wedding says, "I'm pure rubbish at this, so I am." What helps?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: say, be, help · To what, where: pure rubbish, this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 of lesson 30 «Dances of the world and dancing at parties» 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: A girl from Glasgow at a Greek wedding says, "I'm pure rubbish at this, so I am."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Glasgow	case
4	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 wedding	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wedding	det
7	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wedding	amod
8	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rubbish	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 rubbish	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 rubbish	nsubj
13	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 rubbish	cop
14	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 rubbish	amod
15	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	ccomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 this	case
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 rubbish	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 am	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 am	advmod
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 am	nsubj
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 says	parataxis
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a girl from Glasgow at a Greek wedding						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	a girl from Glasgow at a Greek wedding = girl	pure rubbish		this			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 helps?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 helps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Sitting it out alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sitting	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Sitting	compound:prt
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Sitting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit out	gerund		it				alone property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

Option 2

Dancing alone in the middle of the circle to practise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Dancing	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 middle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 middle	det
5	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dancing	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 circle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 circle	det
8	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 middle	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 practise	mark
10	practise	practise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Dancing	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	gerund				the middle of the circle		alone property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location
2	practise	to-infinitive							tree rules

Option 3

Leaving the wedding at once before anyone sees her dance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaving	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 sees	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wedding	det
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaving	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Leaving	obl
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 sees	mark
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 sees	nsubj
8	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dance	nmod:poss
10	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sees	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund		the wedding					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wedding=Theme at once=Location
2	see	present	anyone	her dance					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dance=Stimulus
3	dance		her = she						nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Linking arms and following

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Linking	link	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Linking	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 following	cc
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Linking	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	link	gerund		arms					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
2	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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