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Test 10 · Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers

★★★ "Mia said that she would come." Which is the direct speech version?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, Mia · What happens: say, come, be · To what, where: direct speech version · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 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: ★★★ "Mia said that she would come."

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	6 said	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 ★	punct
5	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 come	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 come	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	★ ★ ★						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come in a quote	would	Mia						vn escape-51.1-1 «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 is the direct speech version?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 version	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 version	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 version	det
4	direct	direct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 version	amod
5	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 version	compound
6	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 version	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

"I will come," said Mia.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	future	Mia						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Mia						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

Option 2

"Mia will come," said she would.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
2	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 would	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	future	Mia						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

Option 3

Mia said, "she would come."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 come	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mia						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come in a quote	would	Mia						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

"She will come," said Mia.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	future	She						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Mia						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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