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Test 1 · ★★★ · Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens

Your mate goes "brackets are for stuff that doesn't matter, so the teacher skips it." What is truer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, brackets, stuff, teacher · What happens: go, be, not matter, skip · To what, where: mate

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 36 «Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens» 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 "brackets are for stuff that doesn't matter, so the teacher skips it."

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	_	8 stuff	punct
5	brackets	bracket	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stuff	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stuff	cop
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 stuff	case
8	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 matter	nsubj
10	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 matter	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 matter	advmod
12	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 stuff	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 skips	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 skips	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 teacher	det
16	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 skips	nsubj
17	skips	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 goes	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 skips	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 skips	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 skips	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Your mate						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	brackets					for stuff	tree rules
3	not matter in a quote	present · do-support	stuff						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
4	skip in a quote	present	the teacher	mate					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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: What is truer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 truer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 truer	cop
3	truer	true	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 truer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

It is extra detail that the sentence can stand without

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 detail	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 detail	cop
3	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 detail	amod
4	detail	detail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 stand	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sentence	det
7	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stand	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 stand	aux
9	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 detail	acl:relcl
10	without	without	ADP	_	9 stand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	extra detail					tree rules
2	stand	can	the sentence	extra detail					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus

Option 2

Brackets mean the words inside them are spelled wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brackets	bracket	NOUN	Number=Plur	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	8 spelled	nsubj:pass
5	inside	inside	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 words	nmod
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 spelled	aux:pass
8	spelled	spell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 mean	ccomp
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 spelled	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Brackets						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	spell	present · passive		the words inside Brackets				wrong property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

Brackets turn a sentence into a question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brackets	bracket	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turn	nsubj
2	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sentence	det
4	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 question	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 question	det
7	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Brackets	a sentence		a question			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme into question=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Teachers never read anything in brackets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 read	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 read	advmod
3	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 read	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 brackets	case
6	brackets	bracket	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 read	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not read	past	Teachers	anything		brackets			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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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