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Test 3 · ★★★ · Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens

In a cartoon, a villain's note says "Meet me at the dock... alone." Why the three dots?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: note, villain · What happens: say, meet, note · To what, where: cartoon, note, dock · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★★ 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: In a cartoon, a villain's note says "Meet me at the dock... alone."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 villain	det
6	villain	villain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 note	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 villain	case
8	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Meet	punct
11	Meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 says	ccomp
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 Meet	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 dock	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dock	det
15	dock	dock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Meet	obl
16	...	...	PUNCT	_	17 alone	punct
17	alone	alone	ADV	_	11 Meet	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 Meet	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Meet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a villain's note			a cartoon			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	meet in a quote	infinitive		a villain's note = note		the dock		alone property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent
3	note		a villain						nom note «communication transitive»: poss=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.

Sentence 2: Why the three dots?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dots	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 dots	nummod
4	dots	dot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Why	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They show the villain forgot a word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 show	nsubj
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 villain	det
4	villain	villain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forgot	nsubj
5	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 show	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 word	det
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forgot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	They						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	forget	past	the villain	a word					tree rules

Option 2

They show that "alone" is a list

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 show	nsubj
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 list	mark
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 alone	punct
5	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 list	amod
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 alone	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 list	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 list	det
9	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 show	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	They						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		a alone list					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They build suspense before "alone"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 build	nsubj
2	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	suspense	suspense	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 build	obj
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 alone	mark
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 alone	punct
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 build	advcl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 build	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present	They	suspense					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset suspense=Product

Option 4

They are decoration, they mean nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 decoration	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 decoration	cop
3	decoration	decoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mean	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mean	nsubj
6	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 decoration	acl:relcl
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	decoration					tree rules
2	mean	present	they	nothing					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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