Test 10 · ★ · Tense consistency and verb forms
Nan, chuffed ("chuffed" means pleased): "You've grown since Christmas!" Which tense is "have grown"?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: chuff, mean, grow, be · To what, where: tense · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ 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: Nan, chuffed ("chuffed" means pleased): "You've grown since Christmas!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nan | Nan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 chuffed | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nan | punct |
| 3 | chuffed | chuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 means | nsubj |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 chuffed | punct |
| 6 | chuffed | chuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 means | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 chuffed | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 means | xcomp |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 grown | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 grown | punct |
| 13 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 grown | nsubj |
| 14 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 grown | aux |
| 15 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 means | ccomp |
| 16 | since | since | ADP | _ | 17 Christmas | case |
| 17 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 grown | obl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 grown | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 grown | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chuff | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | chuff in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | mean | present | pleased property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | grow in a quote | present · perfect | You | since Christmas | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: Which tense is "have grown"?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 tense | det |
| 2 | tense | tense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grown | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 grown | cop |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 grown | punct |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 grown | aux |
| 6 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 grown | punct |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 grown | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present · perfect · passive | which tense | grow property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Simple future
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 future | amod |
| 2 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Present perfect
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 perfect | amod |
| 2 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Past progressive
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 progressive | amod |
| 2 | progressive | progressive | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Present progressive
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 progressive | amod |
| 2 | progressive | progressive | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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