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Test 5 · Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up

«write faster, bruv, the marker'll work out what you meant». Is that right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, marker, that · What happens: write, work out, mean, be · To what, where: bruv

This is test 5 of lesson 5 «Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up» 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: «write faster, bruv, the marker'll work out what you meant».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 write	punct
2	write	write	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 write	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bruv	punct
5	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 write	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 work	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 marker	det
8	marker	marker	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 work	nsubj
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 work	aux
10	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 write	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 work	compound:prt
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 meant	obj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 meant	nsubj
14	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 work	advcl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 write	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 write	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write in a quote	imperative	you not said here	bruv				fast property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	work out in a quote	future	the marker						vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	mean in a quote	past	you						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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: Is that right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, a marker can only mark what they can read

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 mark	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 marker	det
4	marker	marker	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mark	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 mark	aux
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 mark	advmod
7	mark	mark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 read	obj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 read	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 read	aux
11	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 mark	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	can	a marker						tree rules
2	read	can	they						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

Option 2

Yes, markers always guess the best meaning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 guess	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	markers	marker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 guess	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 guess	advmod
5	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 meaning	det
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 meaning	amod
8	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guess	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	present	markers	the best meaning				always property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme

Option 3

Yes, speed always matters more than anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 matters	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 matters	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 matters	advmod
5	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 matters	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 anything	case
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 more	obl

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

Option 4

No, markers never read the answers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 read	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	markers	marker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 read	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 read	advmod
5	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 answers	det
7	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not read	past	markers	the answers					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Topic

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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