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Test 3 · ★ · Excuses and the lies that grow

Piano teacher, dry: «All week, was it? Play me bar three.» What will most likely happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: week, you · What happens: be, play, happen · To what, where: teacher, bar, me

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 337 «Excuses and the lies that grow» 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: Piano teacher, dry: «All week, was it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Piano	piano	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 teacher	compound
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dry	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dry	punct
4	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 it	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 it	punct
7	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 week	det
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 it	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 week	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 it	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dry	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	all week	teacher					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: Play me bar three.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Play	obj
3	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Play	obj
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 bar	flat
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Play	punct
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Play	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	imperative	you not said here	bar	me				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary bar=Theme

Sentence 3: What will most likely happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happen	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 happen	advmod
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	future						likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She'll believe him if he plays it really fast and loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 believe	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 believe	aux
3	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 believe	obj
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 plays	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 plays	nsubj
7	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 believe	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 plays	obj
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 fast	advmod
10	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plays	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 loud	cc
12	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fast	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	future	She	him = he					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	play a condition, not said to happen	present	he	it					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

She can't tell the difference

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 difference	det
6	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	can	She	the difference					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent difference=Recipient

Option 3

She'll give him a star anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 star	det
6	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	3 give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	future	She	a star	him = he			anyway property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient star=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She'll hear he hasn't practised, so owning up is best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 practised	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 practised	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 practised	advmod
7	practised	practise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 hear	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 best	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 best	advmod
10	owning	own	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 best	csubj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 owning	compound:prt
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 best	cop
13	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 hear	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	future	She						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not practise	present · perfect	he						tree rules
3	own up	gerund							vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
4	is	present	owning					good property	tree rules

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