Test 12 · ★ · Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a…

my grandad died and my mate said he's just sleeping

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grandad, mate · What happens: die, say, sleep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 320 «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 grandad	nmod:poss
2	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 died	nsubj
3	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mate	nmod:poss
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 died	conj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sleeping	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sleeping	aux
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 sleeping	advmod
11	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	die	past	my grandad	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	my mate	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sleep	present · progressive	mate	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Yes, old people sleep a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 sleep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sleep	punct
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sleep	nsubj
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lot	det
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	old people	a lot					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme

Option 2

Maybe, nobody knows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maybe	maybe	ADV	_	4 knows	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Maybe	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 knows	nsubj
4	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	nobody					maybe property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Yes, he is in a deep sleep and will wake up later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 sleep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sleep	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sleep	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 sleep	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sleep	det
7	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sleep	amod
8	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wake	cc
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 wake	aux
11	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sleep	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 wake	compound:prt
13	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 wake	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he			a deep sleep			tree rules
2	wake up	future	he not said here					late property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, death means the body has stopped working forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 death	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 body	det
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stopped	nsubj
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stopped	aux
8	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 means	ccomp
9	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 stopped	xcomp
10	forever	forever	ADV	_	9 working	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mean	present	death		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stop	present · perfect	the body		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	work	gerund	the body not said here	forever property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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