Test 7 · ★★ · Video calls and visiting a friend's house
A girl in Perth cannot eat pork for religious reasons, and her friend's dad serves sausages. What should she say?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, dad · What happens: not eat, serve, say · To what, where: pork, sausages · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 129 «Video calls and visiting a friend's house» of the everyday 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: A girl in Perth cannot eat pork for religious reasons, and her friend's dad serves sausages.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Perth | case |
| 4 | Perth | Perth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 eat | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 eat | advmod |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | pork | pork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eat | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 reasons | case |
| 10 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 reasons | amod |
| 11 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 eat | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 serves | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 serves | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 friend | nmod:poss |
| 15 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dad | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 friend | case |
| 17 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 serves | nsubj |
| 18 | serves | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 eat | conj |
| 19 | sausages | sausage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 serves | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 eat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat | can | a girl in Perth | pork | for religious reasons | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pork=Patient | |||
| 2 | serve | present | girl's friend's dad | sausages | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sausage=Attribute |
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: What should she say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | should | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1
"Your food is wrong"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrong | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 food | nmod:poss |
| 3 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wrong | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wrong | cop |
| 5 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Your food | wrong property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
"No, thank you, I can't eat that"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 thank | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 4 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 eat | parataxis |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 thank | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 eat | nsubj |
| 8 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 eat | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 eat | advmod |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 eat | obj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 eat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not eat in a quote | can | I | that | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
Option 3
Leave the table without a word
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 table | det |
| 3 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leave | obj |
| 4 | without | without | ADP | _ | 6 word | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leave | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | the table | without a word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Nothing, and eat it anyway to be polite
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 eat | cc |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Nothing | parataxis |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 eat | obj |
| 6 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 4 eat | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 polite | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 polite | cop |
| 9 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eat | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | infinitive | it | anyway property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | polite property | 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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