Test 2 · Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers

★★★ How many new lines are needed in a conversation where Sam speaks, then Mia, then Sam, then Sam again with no one in between?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sam · What happens: need, speak · To what, where: many new lines, conversation · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 one	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	SCONJ	_	9 needed	mark
4	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 needed	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lines	amod
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lines	amod
7	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 needed	nsubj:pass
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 needed	aux:pass
9	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 ★	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 conversation	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 conversation	det
12	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 needed	obl
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 speaks	advmod
14	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 speaks	nsubj
15	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 conversation	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Mia	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 Mia	advmod
18	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Sam	punct
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 Sam	advmod
21	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Sam	punct
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 Sam	advmod
24	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	conj
25	again	again	ADV	_	28 one	advmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 one	case
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
29	in	in	ADP	_	28 one	acl:relcl
30	between	between	ADP	_	29 in	fixed
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	28 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present · passive		many new lines		a conversation			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
2	speak speech: other	present	Sam						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

One

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

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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