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Test 5 · ★ · Tense consistency and verb forms

Older cousin, dead dry: "I have ate my tea, now shush." What is the standard form?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, Older cousin, standard form · What happens: eat, shush, be · To what, where: tea

This is test 5 · ★ 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: Older cousin, dead dry: "I have ate my tea, now shush."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 cousin	amod
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shush	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dry	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dry	amod
5	dry	dry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cousin	conj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 ate	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 ate	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 ate	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 ate	aux
10	ate	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 shush	advcl
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tea	nmod:poss
12	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ate	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shush	punct
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 shush	advmod
15	shush	shush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 shush	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 shush	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	present · perfect	I	my tea					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Patient
2	shush in a quote	infinitive	Older cousin and dead dry				now		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 the standard form?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 form	det
4	standard	standard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 form	amod
5	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

I have eat my tea.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	xcomp
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tea	nmod:poss
5	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	I						tree rules
2	eat	infinitive	I not said here	my tea					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Patient

Option 2

I have ated my tea.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 ated	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ated	aux
3	ated	at	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tea	nmod:poss
5	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ated	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	at	present · perfect	I	my tea					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

I have eaten my tea.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 eaten	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eaten	aux
3	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tea	nmod:poss
5	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eaten	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eaten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present · perfect	I	my tea					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Patient

Option 4

I has eaten my tea.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 eaten	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eaten	aux
3	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tea	nmod:poss
5	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eaten	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eaten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present · perfect	I	my tea					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Patient

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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