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Test 2 · Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"

Tia, Gen Alpha: "Me and my bestie are delulu, we reckon we'll get zero." ("Delulu" means believing something unrealistic.) What would help them?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we, Delulu · What happens: reckon, get, mean, believe, help · To what, where: zero, something, them · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 of lesson 53 «Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"» 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: Tia, Gen Alpha: "Me and my bestie are delulu, we reckon we'll get zero."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tia	Tia	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Alpha	punct
3	Gen	Gen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Alpha	compound
4	Alpha	Alpha	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tia	appos
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Me	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Me	punct
7	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tia	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bestie	cc
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bestie	nmod:poss
10	bestie	bestie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Me	conj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 delulu	cop
12	delulu	delulu	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Tia	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 reckon	punct
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 reckon	nsubj
15	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tia	conj
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 get	nsubj
17	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 get	aux
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 reckon	ccomp
19	zero	zero	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 get	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 reckon	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon in a quote	present	we						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	get in a quote	future	we	zero					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer zero=Stimulus

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: ("Delulu" means believing something unrealistic.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Delulu	punct
3	Delulu	Delulu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Delulu	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	believing	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 means	xcomp
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 believing	obj
8	unrealistic	unrealistic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 something	amod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Delulu						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	believe not said to happen	gerund	Delulu not said here	something					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus

Sentence 3: What would help them?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 help	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 help	aux
3	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 help	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	would		them = they					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Giving up revising, since it is hopeless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 hopeless	csubj
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Giving	compound:prt
3	revising	revise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Giving	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Giving	punct
5	since	since	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Giving	obl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hopeless	cop
8	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	gerund					since it		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	revise	gerund							vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	Giving					hopeless property	tree rules

Option 2

Keeping it secret and worrying even more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keeping	obj
3	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keeping	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 worrying	cc
5	worrying	worry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Keeping	conj
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 worrying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund		it				secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	worry	gerund							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Talking to a teacher about what's realistic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 what	csubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 teacher	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Talking	obl
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 what	case
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 realistic	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 realistic	cop
8	realistic	realistic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	gerund						to a teacher	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to teacher=Co-Agent
2	is	present						realistic property	tree rules

Option 4

Revising all night, every single night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Revising	revise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Revising	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Revising	punct
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 night	amod
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Revising	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	revise	gerund					night		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: 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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