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Test 1 · ★ · Inference: reading between the lines

«she slammed the door so she's just tired innit». What's wrong with this inference?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: slam, be · To what, where: door

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 18 «Inference: reading between the lines» of the English 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: «she slammed the door so she's just tired innit».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 slammed	punct
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 slammed	nsubj
3	slammed	slam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slammed	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 tired	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tired	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tired	cop
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 tired	advmod
10	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 innit	amod
11	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slammed	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 slammed	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slammed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slam in a quote	past	she	the door					vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent door=Patient innit=Result
2	is in a quote	present	she					tired property	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's wrong with this inference?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 inference	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 inference	det
6	inference	inference	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrong	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						with this inference; wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Doors can't be slammed in stories

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 slammed	nsubj:pass
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 slammed	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 slammed	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 slammed	aux:pass
5	slammed	slam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 stories	case
7	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 slammed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not slam	can · passive		Doors		stories			vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in story=Location

Option 2

Nothing, all slamming means tiredness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 means	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 slamming	det
4	slamming	slamming	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	tiredness	tiredness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Nothing	tiredness					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiredness=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It doesn't fit the clue: slamming shows anger, not tiredness

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 fit	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fit	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 fit	advmod
4	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 clue	det
6	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fit	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 anger	punct
8	slamming	slam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 anger	compound
9	shows	show	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 slamming	obj
10	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fit	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tiredness	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 tiredness	advmod
13	tiredness	tiredness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 anger	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fit	present · do-support	It	the clue					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Patient
2	slam	gerund		shows					vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent show=Patient

Option 4

It's too long

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 long	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					long 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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