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Test 1 · ★ · Tense consistency and verb forms

Your mate goes "tense is just for maths, innit, like tens and units." What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, tense · What happens: go, be

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 31 «Tense consistency and verb forms» 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: Your mate goes "tense is just for maths, innit, like tens and units."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 maths	punct
5	tense	tense	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 maths	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 maths	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 maths	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 maths	case
9	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 goes	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 maths	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tens	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 tens	case
14	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 maths	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 units	cc
16	units	unit	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 maths	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 maths	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Your mate						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	tense					for maths and innit and tens and units	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 is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Tense is how worried the writer feels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tense	tense	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worried	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 worried	cop
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 worried	advmod
4	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 writer	det
6	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feels	nsubj
7	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 worried	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Tense					worried property	tree rules
2	feel	present	the writer						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Tense means how loud you read a word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tense	tense	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 loud	advmod
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	xcomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 read	nsubj
6	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Tense					loud property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	read	present	you	a word					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Tense means the time a verb points to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tense	tense	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 verb	det
6	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 points	nsubj
7	points	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 time	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	7 points	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Tense				time		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	point	present	a verb	the time not said here					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Patient

Option 4

Tense is the number of words in a sentence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tense	tense	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 number	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 number	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 number	det
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 words	case
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 number	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 sentence	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sentence	det
9	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 words	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Tense	the number				of words in a sentence	tree rules

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