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Test 2 · Commas: lists, clauses and clarity

★★★ "My brother who lives in Leeds" versus "My brother, who lives in Leeds". Which one suggests the speaker has more than one brother?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, one, speaker · What happens: live, suggest, have · To what, where: Leeds, one brother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 of lesson 33 «Commas: lists, clauses and clarity» 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: ★★★ "My brother who lives in Leeds" versus "My brother, who lives in Leeds".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 brother	punct
5	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 brother	nmod:poss
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	conj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lives	nsubj
8	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 brother	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Leeds	case
10	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lives	obl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 brother	punct
12	versus	versus	ADP	_	15 brother	case
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 brother	punct
14	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 brother	nmod:poss
15	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lives	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lives	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 lives	nsubj
18	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 brother	acl:relcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 Leeds	case
20	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 lives	obl
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 lives	punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ★	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live in a quote	present	My brother			Leeds		versus My brother	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in leeds=Location
2	live in a quote	present	My brother			Leeds			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in leeds=Location

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 one suggests the speaker has more than one brother?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 suggests	nsubj
3	suggests	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 speaker	det
5	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 suggests	ccomp
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	9 one	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	7 more	fixed
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 brother	nummod
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 suggests	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	present	which one						vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	the speaker	one brother					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Neither says anything about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 says	obj
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 anything	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Neither	anything				about it	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

Option 2

Both suggest exactly that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 suggest	nsubj
2	suggest	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 that	advmod
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 suggest	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	present	Both	that					vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The one without commas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	without	without	ADP	_	4 commas	case
4	commas	comma	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The one with commas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 commas	case
4	commas	comma	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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