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Test 1 · ★ · SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper

Your mate says, "Grammar words are useless, you just talk, innit." Put him right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, Grammar words, you · What happens: say, be, talk, innit, put · To what, where: mate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 52 «SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper» 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: Your mate says, "Grammar words are useless, you just talk, innit."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 useless	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 useless	punct
6	Grammar	grammar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 words	compound
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 useless	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 useless	cop
9	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 talk	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 talk	nsubj
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 talk	advmod
13	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 useless	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 innit	punct
15	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 talk	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 useless	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 useless	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	Grammar words					useless property	tree rules
3	talk in a quote	present	you						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	innit in a quote	infinitive	you not said here						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.

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Grammar words just make you sound posher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grammar	grammar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 words	compound
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 make	advmod
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
7	posher	posh	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 sound	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Grammar words	you					tree rules
2	sound	infinitive	you not said here					posh property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Nobody ever uses grammar words for anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 uses	nsubj
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 uses	advmod
3	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	grammar	grammar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 words	compound
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 uses	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 anything	case
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 uses	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Nobody	grammar words			ever	for anything	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent word=Theme for anything=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They let you talk about how sentences work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	about	about	SCONJ	_	8 work	mark
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 work	advmod
7	sentences	sentence	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 work	nsubj
8	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	They	you					tree rules
2	talk	infinitive	you not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	work	present	sentences						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Grammar words are only for teachers to use

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grammar	grammar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 words	compound
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 teachers	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 teachers	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 teachers	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 teachers	case
6	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 use	mark
8	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 teachers	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Grammar words					for teachers	tree rules
2	use	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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