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Test 7 · Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell

Dev, who speaks Indian English, says, "Kindly prepone my talk to Monday." ("Prepone" means move earlier.) When does Dev want to speak?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dev, my, Prepone · What happens: speak, say, talk, mean, move, want · To what, where: Indian English · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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: Dev, who speaks Indian English, says, "Kindly prepone my talk to Monday."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dev	Dev	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 speaks	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 speaks	nsubj
4	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Dev	acl:relcl
5	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 English	amod
6	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 speaks	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dev	punct
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 talk	punct
11	Kindly	kindly	ADV	_	14 talk	advmod
12	prepone	prepone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 talk	compound
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 talk	nmod:poss
14	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Monday	case
16	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 talk	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 talk	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present	Dev	Indian English					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	Dev						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	talk in a quote		my					to Monday	nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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: ("Prepone" means move earlier.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Prepone	punct
3	Prepone	prepone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Prepone	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 means	ccomp
7	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 move	advmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Prepone						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	move	infinitive						early property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Sentence 3: When does Dev want to speak?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 want	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	Dev	Dev	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 speak	mark
6	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present · do-support	Dev						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	Dev not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Later, after Monday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Later	punct
3	after	after	ADP	_	4 Monday	case
4	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Later	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Earlier, on Monday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Earlier	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 Monday	case
4	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Earlier	obl

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

Option 3

At the same time as planned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 planned	mark
6	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 time	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plan	participle		the same time not said here					vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Never; he is cancelling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 cancelling	advmod
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Never	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cancelling	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cancelling	aux
5	cancelling	cancell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cancell	present · progressive	he						tree rules

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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