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Test 1 · ★ · Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration

Your mate says, "Metaphors are just lies, innit, the sun ain't a coin." Put him right.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, Metaphors, you · What happens: say, be, put · To what, where: lies, mate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 46 «Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration» 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 says, "Metaphors are just lies, innit, the sun ain't a coin."

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 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lies	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 lies	punct
6	Metaphors	metaphor	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lies	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lies	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 lies	advmod
9	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 says	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lies	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ai	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sun	det
14	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ai	nsubj
15	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 coin	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 coin	det
18	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ai	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	Metaphors	lies and innit					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: Put him right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here		mate			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

It shows a likeness; nobody means it literally

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	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 likeness	det
4	likeness	likeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 means	nsubj
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shows	parataxis
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 means	obj
9	literally	literally	ADV	_	7 means	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It	a likeness					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent likeness=Recipient
2	mean	present	nobody	likeness				literally property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

He is right, but only for poems about the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 poems	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 poems	cc
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 poems	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 poems	case
8	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 right	parataxis
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 sun	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 poems	nmod

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

Option 3

He is right, so poets should stick to facts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stick	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 stick	advmod
6	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stick	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 stick	aux
8	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 right	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 facts	case
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	stick	should	poets					to facts	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to fact=Co-Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It is true, since the sun is made of gold

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	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
5	since	since	SCONJ	_	9 made	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 made	aux:pass
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 true	parataxis
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 gold	case
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					true property	tree rules
2	make	present · passive		the sun				of gold	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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