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Test 3 · Commas: lists, clauses and clarity

A Gen Z sister texts "slay, babe, slay." Which comma rule is she using?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Z sister, sister · What happens: text, slay, use · To what, where: slay, comma rule · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 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: A Gen Z sister texts "slay, babe, slay."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sister	det
2	Gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Z	compound
3	Z	z	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sister	compound
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 texts	nsubj
5	texts	text	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 slay	punct
7	slay	slay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 texts	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 babe	punct
9	babe	babe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slay	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 slay	punct
11	slay	slay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 texts	parataxis
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 texts	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 texts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	text	present	a Z sister	slay and babe					tree rules
2	slay in a quote	infinitive							vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 comma rule is she using?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 comma	det
2	comma	comma	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rule	compound
3	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 using	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 using	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 using	nsubj
6	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 using	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · progressive	sister	comma rule					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Commas around numbers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Commas	comma	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	around	around	ADP	_	3 numbers	case
3	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Commas	nmod

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

Option 2

Commas in a list of three foods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Commas	comma	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 list	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 list	det
4	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Commas	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 foods	case
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 foods	nummod
7	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 list	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	list			three foods					nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Commas before or after the person spoken to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Commas	comma	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	before	before	ADP	_	6 person	case
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 after	cc
4	after	after	ADP	_	2 before	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Commas	nmod
7	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 person	acl
8	to	to	ADP	_	7 spoken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	participle		the person not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Commas after a fronted adverbial at the start

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Commas	comma	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	after	after	ADP	_	5 adverbial	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 adverbial	det
4	fronted	front	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 adverbial	amod
5	adverbial	adverbial	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Commas	nmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 start	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 start	det
8	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 adverbial	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	front	participle							tree rules

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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