Test 13 · Remembering details

not sure if his jacket was blue or black

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: jacket · What happens: be

This is test 13 of lesson 18 «Remembering details» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 sure	advmod
2	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 blue	mark
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 jacket	nmod:poss
5	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blue	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 blue	cop
7	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sure	ccomp
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 black	cc
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 blue	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his jacket					blue property	tree rules
2	be		his jacket not said here						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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Say both, to be safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Say	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 safe	punct
4	to	to	PART	_	6 safe	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 safe	cop
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	both					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent both=Topic
2	is	to-infinitive						safe property	tree rules

Option 2

Say what the others said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 said	obj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 others	det
4	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the others						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Say you're not sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 sure	nsubj
3	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sure	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 sure	advmod
5	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	you					sure property	tree rules

Option 4

Pick blue to sound sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pick	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sound	mark
4	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pick	xcomp
5	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sound	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	imperative	you not said here	blue					tree rules
2	sound	to-infinitive	you not said here					sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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