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Test 10 · ★★★ · Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens

A Liverpool lad says "The match – our kid's first – was boss." ("Boss" means great.) Lift out the part between the dashes. What is left?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Liverpool lad, Boss, you · What happens: say, be, mean, lift out, leave · To what, where: match, boss, part, dashes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★★ 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: A Liverpool lad says "The match – our kid's first – was boss."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lad	det
2	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lad	compound
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 match	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 match	det
7	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	obj
8	–	-	PUNCT	_	12 first	punct
9	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 kid	nmod:poss
10	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 first	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 kid	case
12	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 match	acl:relcl
13	–	-	PUNCT	_	15 boss	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 boss	cop
15	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 first	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 match	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 match	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a Liverpool lad	the match					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent match=Topic
2	is a in a quote	past		boss					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: ("Boss" means great.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Boss	punct
3	Boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Boss	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	xcomp
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Boss					great property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: Lift out the part between the dashes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Lift	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 part	det
4	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lift	obj
5	between	between	ADP	_	7 dashes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dashes	det
7	dashes	dash	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 part	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Lift	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift out	imperative	you not said here	the part		the dashes			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent part=Theme between dash=Destination

Sentence 4: What is left?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 left	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 left	aux:pass
3	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present · passive							vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The match our kid's first.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 match	det
2	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 kid	nmod:poss
4	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 match	conj
5	's	's	PART	_	4 kid	case
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 match	amod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 match	punct

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The match was boss.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 match	det
2	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boss	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 boss	cop
4	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 boss	punct

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

Option 3

Our kid's first was boss.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 kid	nmod:poss
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boss	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 kid	case
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 boss	amod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 boss	cop
6	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 boss	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Our kid's first boss					tree rules

Option 4

Was boss.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 boss	cop
2	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 boss	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		boss					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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