Test 23 · ★ · Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners

at the door mum's friend says "this is my partner, Sam". what does "partner" mean here?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, this, partner · What happens: say, be, mean · To what, where: partner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 23 · ★ of lesson 296 «Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners» 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	at	at	ADP	_	6 friend	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mum	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mum	compound
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 friend	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 mum	case
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 partner	punct
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 partner	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 partner	cop
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 partner	nmod:poss
12	partner	partner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Sam	punct
14	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 partner	vocative
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 partner	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 mean	obj
18	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 mean	aux
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 partner	punct
20	partner	partner	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mean	nsubj
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 partner	punct
22	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 says	ccomp
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 mean	advmod
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the door mum's friend				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	this	my partner		Sam vocative	tree rules
3	mean	present · do-support	partner		here		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

A business manager

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 manager	det
2	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 manager	compound
3	manager	manager	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Her brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The person she lives with or is a couple with

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 couple	nsubj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lives	nsubj
4	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 person	acl:relcl
5	with	with	ADP	_	4 lives	obl
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 with	cc
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 couple	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 couple	det
9	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	9 couple	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	person	the person not said here					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme person=Location
2	is a	present	the person	a couple					tree rules

Option 4

The person she plays tennis with

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plays	nsubj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 plays	nsubj
4	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tennis	tennis	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plays	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	4 plays	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	the person	tennis					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tennis=Theme

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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