Test 8 · Vocabulary in context
Mia's mum: «Your nan's been curt with me all day.» How has Nan been talking?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nan · What happens: be, talk
This is test 8 of lesson 20 «Vocabulary in context» 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: Mia's mum: «Your nan's been curt with me all day.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Mia | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 curt | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 curt | punct |
| 6 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 nan | nmod:poss |
| 7 | nan | nan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 curt | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 curt | cop |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 curt | cop |
| 10 | curt | curt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mum | parataxis |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 curt | obl |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 curt | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mum | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 mum | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Your nan | day | with me; curt 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: How has Nan been talking?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 talking | advmod |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 talking | aux |
| 3 | Nan | Nan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 talking | nsubj |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 talking | aux |
| 5 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 talking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | present · perfect · progressive | Nan | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Short and unfriendly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 unfriendly | cc |
| 3 | unfriendly | unfriendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Short | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Loud and happy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 happy | cc |
| 3 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Loud | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
In a funny accent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 accent | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 accent | det |
| 3 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 accent | amod |
| 4 | accent | accent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Kind and chatty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 chatty | cc |
| 3 | chatty | chatty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Kind | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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