Test 3 · Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure…

"dunno where me keys are, heaven knows" — what does the speaker know?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: me, heaven, speaker · What happens: be, know · To what, where: dunno · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 of lesson 32 «Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes» of the euphemisms 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 dunno	punct
2	dunno	dunno	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knows	obl
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	2 dunno	nmod
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 where	nsubj
5	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 where	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 where	cop
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dunno	punct
8	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knows	nsubj
9	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 knows	punct
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	9 knows	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 know	obj
13	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 know	aux
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 speaker	det
15	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 know	nsubj
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 knows	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 knows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	me		where property	tree rules
2	know in a quote	present	heaven	dunno		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	know	present · do-support	the speaker			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The keys are in a church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 keys	det
2	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 church	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 church	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 church	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 church	det
6	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the keys			a church			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They do not know where the keys are

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	4 know	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 know	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 keys	det
7	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 where	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 where	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	They						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	the keys					where property	tree rules

Option 3

The keys are upstairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 keys	det
2	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 upstairs	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 upstairs	cop
4	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4

A neighbour round the corner has the keys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 neighbour	det
2	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
3	round	round	ADP	_	5 corner	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 corner	det
5	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 neighbour	nmod
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 keys	det
8	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a neighbour round the corner	the keys					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Patient

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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