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Test 2 · ★ · SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper

Aisling in Dublin: "Sure we was only messin', so we were." ("Messin'" means joking around.) Which form does the GPS test want?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: we, Messin, form, GPS test · What happens: aisle, be, mean, joke around, do, want · To what, where: Dublin, messin

This is test 2 · ★ 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: Aisling in Dublin: "Sure we was only messin', so we were."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aisling	aisle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 were	advcl
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Dublin	case
3	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Aisling	obl
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 messin	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 messin	punct
6	Sure	sure	INTJ	_	10 messin	discourse
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 messin	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 messin	cop
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 messin	advmod
10	messin	messin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Aisling	obl
11	',	',	PUNCT	_	10 messin	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 were	advmod
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 were	nsubj
14	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 were	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 were	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	aisle	gerund	we not said here			Dublin			tree rules
2	is a in a quote	past	we	messin					tree rules
3	be in a quote	past	we						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: ("Messin'" means joking around.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Messin	punct
3	Messin	Messin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Messin	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Messin	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	joking	joke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 means	xcomp
8	around	around	ADV	_	7 joking	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Messin						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	joke around speech: other not said to happen	gerund	Messin not said here					around property	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: Which form does the GPS test want?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 form	det
2	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 test	det
5	GPS	GPS	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 test	compound
6	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 does	ccomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	which form						tree rules
2	want	infinitive	the GPS test						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

The options

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

we were

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 were	nsubj
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	we						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

we was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 was	nsubj
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	we						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

we be

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 be	nsubj
2	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	infinitive	we						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

we is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 is	nsubj
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	we						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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