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Test 10 · Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell

Leah gives a talk to her mates, then the same talk to the governors. What should change?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Leah · What happens: give, change · To what, where: talk, mates

This is test 10 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: Leah gives a talk to her mates, then the same talk to the governors.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leah	Leah	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 talk	det
4	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 mates	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mates	nmod:poss
7	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 talk	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 talk	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 talk	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 talk	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 talk	amod
12	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 governors	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 governors	det
15	governors	governor	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 talk	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Leah	a talk	Leah's mates				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent talk=Theme to mate=Recipient

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: What should change?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 change	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 change	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	should							vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing; one talk fits every audience

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 fits	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 talk	nummod
4	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fits	nsubj
5	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	acl:relcl
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 audience	det
7	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fits	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	present	one talk	every audience					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent audience=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Her words: chatty for mates, formal for governors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 words	nmod:poss
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chatty	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 chatty	punct
4	chatty	chatty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 mates	case
6	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chatty	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 formal	punct
8	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chatty	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 governors	case
10	governors	governor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 formal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	word		Her = she						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

The facts, which can be made up for governors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 facts	det
2	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 made	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 made	nsubj:pass
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 made	aux:pass
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 made	compound:prt
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 governors	case
10	governors	governor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	can · passive		the facts				for governors	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot

Option 4

Only the font size on her slides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 size	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 size	det
3	font	font	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 size	compound
4	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 slides	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 slides	nmod:poss
7	slides	slide	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 size	nmod

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

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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