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Test 6 · ★★★ · Relative clauses

★★★ «I met a girl at the park whose dog was huge.» Why is this sentence a bit muddled?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, dog · What happens: meet, be, muddle · To what, where: girl, park, sentence

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Relative clauses» 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: ★★★ «I met a girl at the park whose dog was huge.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
2	★	★	X	_	3 ★	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 met	nsubj
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 met	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 met	nsubj
6	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 met	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 park	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 park	det
11	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 girl	nmod
12	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	13 dog	nmod:poss
13	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 huge	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 huge	cop
15	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 park	acl:relcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 met	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 met	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet in a quote	past	★ ★ ★	a girl		the park			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Co-Agent
2	is in a quote	past	dog					huge 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: Why is this sentence a bit muddled?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 sentence	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sentence	cop
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 sentence	det
4	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 muddled	nsubj:pass
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 muddled	obl:unmarked
7	muddled	muddle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 muddled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		this sentence					tree rules
2	muddle	participle · passive		this sentence				a bit obl:unmarked	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Parks can't have relative clauses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parks	park	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	relative	relative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 clauses	amod
6	clauses	clause	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	can	Parks	relative clauses					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Patient

Option 2

Whose should be who's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	3 be	nmod:poss
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 be	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 who	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	should							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present							tree rules

Option 3

It has no verb at all

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 verb	det
4	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 verb	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no verb		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verb=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Whose seems to belong to the park, not the girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	2 seems	nmod:poss
2	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 belong	mark
4	belong	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seems	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 park	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 park	det
7	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 belong	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 girl	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 girl	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girl	det
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seems	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	present							vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	belong	to-infinitive						to the park	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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