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Test 1 · Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers

Your mate goes "speech marks are for when people shout, innit." What is the truth?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, people, speech marks, truth · What happens: go, shout, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 35 «Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers» 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 "speech marks are for when people shout, innit."

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	_	13 innit	punct
5	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 marks	compound
6	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 innit	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 innit	cop
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 shout	mark
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 shout	advmod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shout	nsubj
11	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 innit	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shout	punct
13	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 goes	ccomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Your mate						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	shout speech: express in a quote	present	people						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	speech marks					innit property	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 the truth?

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	4 truth	det
4	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1

They mean the words are made up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 mean	nsubj
2	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 words	det
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 mean	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 made	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	They						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make up	present · passive		the words					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot

Option 2

They are only for questions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 questions	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 questions	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 questions	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 questions	case
5	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					for questions	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They go around any exact spoken words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	around	around	ADP	_	7 words	case
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 words	det
5	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 words	amod
6	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 words	amod
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	They			any exact spoken words			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around word=Initial_Location
2	speak speech: other	participle							vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They are only for shouting in capital letters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shouting	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shouting	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 shouting	advmod
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	5 shouting	mark
5	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 letters	case
7	capital	capital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 letters	amod
8	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shouting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present · progressive	They			capital letters			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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