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Test 3 · ★★★ · Olympiad: tricky comprehension

Ella says, "'The old man the boat' isn't even a sentence!" Put her right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ella, old man, you · What happens: say, not be, put · To what, where: sentence, Ella · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 60 «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» 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: Ella says, "'The old man the boat' isn't even a sentence!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sentence	nsubj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boat	det
10	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	nmod
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sentence	cop
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 sentence	advmod
14	even	even	ADV	_	16 sentence	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sentence	det
16	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 sentence	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 sentence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	present	Ella						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is a in a quote	present	the old man the boat	a sentence					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 her 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	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem 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		Ella			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal

The options

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

It is: old people crew the boat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 crew	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 crew	cop
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 crew	punct
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 crew	nsubj
6	crew	crew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boat	det
8	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crew	obj

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

Option 2

It's about one old man, so it's fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 man	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 man	cop
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 man	nummod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fine	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 fine	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fine	expl
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fine	cop
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	one old man					tree rules
2	is	present	one old man not said here					fine property	tree rules

Option 3

She's right: it has no verb at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	csubj
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 verb	det
8	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 verb	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					right property	tree rules
2	have	present	it	no verb		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verb=Patient

Option 4

It only works with "is" after "man"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 works	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 works	advmod
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	10 man	case
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 man	cop
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 is	punct
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 man	case
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 works	obl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	It						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present						with man	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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