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Test 10 · ★ · Fronted adverbials

«y'all, 'once upon a time' is a fronted adverbial?» Is it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: y'all · What happens: front, be · To what, where: fronted adverbial

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 29 «Fronted adverbials» 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: «y'all, 'once upon a time' is a fronted adverbial?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 y'all	punct
2	y'all	y'all	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 adverbial	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 y'all	punct
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 y'all	punct
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 y'all	advmod
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 once	obl
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 y'all	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 adverbial	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 adverbial	det
12	fronted	front	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 adverbial	amod
13	adverbial	adverbial	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 adverbial	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 adverbial	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	front in a quote	participle							tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	y'all	a fronted adverbial					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: Is it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Is	nsubj
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Is	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	y'all						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

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

Yes, it tells when, and it comes first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 tells	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tells	nsubj
4	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 tells	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 comes	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 comes	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 comes	nsubj
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tells	conj
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 comes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	it						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	present	it					first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, but only because it tells you where the story happens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 tells	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tells	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 tells	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 tells	advmod
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 tells	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tells	nsubj
7	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 tells	iobj
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 happens	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 story	det
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 happens	nsubj
12	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tells	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	it		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	happen	present	the story						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

No, it's a noun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 noun	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 noun	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 noun	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 noun	det
6	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a noun					tree rules

Option 4

No, it's only a title

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 title	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 title	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 title	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 title	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 title	det
7	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a title					tree rules

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