Test 6 · Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell

Which talk ending is best?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: talk ending · What happens: be

This is test 6 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 ending	det
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ending	compound
3	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 best	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 best	cop
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 best	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which talk ending					good property	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.

The options

Option 1

"The end. And please don't ask me anything."

Sentence 1: "The end.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 end	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 end	det
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 end	punct

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

Sentence 2: And please don't ask me anything."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 ask	cc
2	please	please	INTJ	_	5 ask	discourse
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 ask	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 ask	advmod
5	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 ask	iobj
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 ask	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	imperative · do-support	you not said here	anything	me				tree rules

Option 2

"I forgot the rest of it, so that is the end now, bye then."

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 forgot	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 forgot	nsubj
3	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rest	det
5	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forgot	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rest	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 end	punct
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	13 end	mark
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 end	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 end	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 end	det
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forgot	parataxis
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 forgot	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bye	punct
16	bye	bye	INTJ	_	3 forgot	discourse
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 forgot	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 forgot	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 forgot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget in a quote	past	I	the rest of rest			now; then		tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	that	the end					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

"Um, that's it, I think, yeah, I'm done now, bye."

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 think	punct
2	Um	um	INTJ	_	6 it	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 it	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 it	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 it	cop
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 think	nsubj:outer
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 think	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 think	nsubj
9	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 done	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	15 done	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 done	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 done	nsubj
14	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 done	aux:pass
15	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 think	ccomp
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 done	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 done	punct
18	bye	bye	INTJ	_	15 done	discourse
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 think	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	that	it		tree rules
2	think speech: other in a quote	present	it			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	do in a quote	present · passive		I	now	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

"So volcanoes build land and destroy it. Any questions?"

Sentence 1: "So volcanoes build land and destroy it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 build	punct
2	So	so	ADV	_	4 build	advmod
3	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 build	nsubj
4	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 build	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 destroy	cc
7	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 build	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 destroy	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 build	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build in a quote	present	volcanoes	land					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset land=Product
2	destroy in a quote	infinitive	volcanoes not said here	land					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Sentence 2: Any questions?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 questions	det
2	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 questions	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 questions	punct

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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