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Test 1 · Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell

Jake says, "Show-and-tell's pointless if your thing's rubbish." Put him right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jake, you · What happens: say, put · To what, where: Show, Jake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 48 «Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell» 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: Jake says, "Show-and-tell's pointless if your thing's rubbish."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Show	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Show	punct
5	Show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tell	cc
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 and	punct
9	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Show	conj
10	's	's	PART	_	9 tell	case
11	pointless	pointless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Show	ccomp
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 rubbish	mark
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 thing	nmod:poss
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rubbish	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 thing	case
16	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pointless	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Jake	Show and tell					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent show=Topic

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		Jake			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Objects have to be bought, not found

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 bought	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 bought	aux:pass
5	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 have	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 found	advmod
8	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bought	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Objects						tree rules
2	buy	to-infinitive · passive	Objects not said here						vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»
3	not find	participle	Objects not said here						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Show-and-tell is only for Year 6

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Year	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
5	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Show	conj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Year	cop
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 Year	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 Year	case
9	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 Year	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Show and tell				for Year		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The talk matters more than the object

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 talk	det
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 matters	nsubj
3	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 matters	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 object	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 object	det
7	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 matters	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	the talk					than the object	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Only exciting objects count at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 objects	advmod
2	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 objects	amod
3	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 count	nsubj
4	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 count	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	exciting objects			all			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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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