Test 11 · ★★★ · Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens

Which shows the sofa was covered again, not that someone got better?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: someone · What happens: show, cover, not get · To what, where: sofa · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sofa	det
4	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 covered	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 covered	aux:pass
6	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 shows	ccomp
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 covered	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 got	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 got	advmod
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 got	mark
11	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 got	nsubj
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shows	conj
13	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 got	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	show	present					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cover	past · passive		the sofa	again		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
3	not get	past	someone			good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

recovered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recover	participle							vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

re: covered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	re	re	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 re	punct
3	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 re	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	re	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	cover	participle	you not said here						vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

re-covered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	re-covered	re-covered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

re covered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	re	re	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 re	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	re	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	cover	participle	you not said here						vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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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