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Test 7 · ★ · Rumours and gossip

Everyone says a new teacher in Vancouver is strict and unfair, but she is kind to you. What should you believe?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Everyone, new teacher, teacher, you · What happens: say, be, believe · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 202 «Rumours and gossip» 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: Everyone says a new teacher in Vancouver is strict and unfair, but she is kind to you.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 teacher	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 teacher	amod
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 strict	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Vancouver	case
7	Vancouver	Vancouver	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 teacher	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 strict	cop
9	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 unfair	cc
11	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 strict	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 kind	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 kind	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 kind	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 kind	cop
16	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 strict	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 kind	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Everyone						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	a new teacher in Vancouver					strict property	tree rules
3	be		a new teacher in Vancouver not said here						tree rules
4	is	present	teacher		you			kind property	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: What should you believe?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 believe	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 believe	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 believe	nsubj
4	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 believe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	should	you						vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

The options

Option 1

That you must have done something special

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 done	nsubj
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 done	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 done	aux
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 done	obj
7	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 something	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	must · perfect	That	something					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

What the most children say about her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 children	amod
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the most children					about her = she	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Your own experience of how she treats you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 experience	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 experience	amod
3	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 treats	nsubj
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 treats	mark
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 treats	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 treats	nsubj
7	treats	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 treats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	treat	present	Your own experience		you				vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	experience		Your						nom experience «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

That she is only pretending to be kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 pretending	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pretending	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pretending	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 pretending	advmod
5	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 kind	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 kind	cop
8	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pretending	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	present · progressive	That						tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	That not said here					kind 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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