Test 21 · Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the l…

in a café you hear "they've been dating since uni, and he still hasn't popped the question!" what's the question?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, they, he · What happens: hear, date, not pop, be · To what, where: café, question · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 21 of lesson 311 «Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the library, the doctor and crowds» 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	in	in	ADP	_	3 café	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 café	det
3	café	café	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hear	obl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 hear	nsubj
5	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 dating	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dating	nsubj
8	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dating	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 dating	aux
10	dating	date	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 hear	ccomp
11	since	since	ADP	_	12 uni	case
12	uni	uni	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dating	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 popped	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 popped	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 popped	nsubj
16	still	still	ADV	_	19 popped	advmod
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 popped	aux
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 popped	advmod
19	popped	pop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 question	csubj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 question	det
21	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 popped	obj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 popped	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 popped	punct
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 question	nsubj
25	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 question	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 question	det
27	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dating	parataxis
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	hear	present	you		a café		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	date in a quote	present · perfect · progressive	they			since uni	tree rules
3	not pop in a quote	present · perfect	he	the question		still	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Patient
4	be speech: other	present		the question			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 · ✓ the right answer

Asking her to marry him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Asking	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 marry	mark
4	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Asking	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund			her = she				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive		him = he					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

Asking for the bill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 bill	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bill	det
4	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund						for the bill	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Asking for a job

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 job	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 job	det
4	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund						for a job	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Asking what day it is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 is	csubj
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 day	nsubj
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asking	obl:unmarked
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Asking	obj
5	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund		it	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	day				tree rules
3	be	present	Asking		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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