Test 1 · ★ · Leaving someone out

«his trainers are well old lol, does his mum buy em at a jumble sale». What's the kind reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: trainers, mum, kind reply · What happens: be, buy · To what, where: em, jumble sale

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 347 «Leaving someone out» 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: «his trainers are well old lol, does his mum buy em at a jumble sale».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 trainers	nmod:poss
3	trainers	trainer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 old	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 old	advmod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	lol	lol	INTJ	_	12 buy	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lol	punct
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 buy	aux
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mum	nmod:poss
11	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 buy	nsubj
12	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 old	conj
13	em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 buy	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 sale	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 sale	det
16	jumble	jumble	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sale	compound
17	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 buy	obl
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	his trainers					old, well property	tree rules
2	buy in a quote	present · do-support	his mum	em = they		a jumble sale			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Theme at sale=Asset

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's the kind reply?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reply	det
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reply	amod
5	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the kind reply						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

«Ha, yeah, and his shoes are older than my dad»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 older	punct
2	Ha	ha	INTJ	_	10 older	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 older	punct
4	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	10 older	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 older	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 older	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 shoes	nmod:poss
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 older	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 older	cop
10	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
11	than	than	ADP	_	13 dad	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 dad	nmod:poss
13	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 older	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 older	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	his shoes					than my dad; old property	tree rules

Option 2

«Mine are newer»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 newer	punct
2	Mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 newer	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 newer	cop
4	newer	new	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 newer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Mine					new property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

«Leave it, it's nothing to do with who he is»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Leave	punct
2	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Leave	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nothing	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 nothing	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 nothing	cop
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 Leave	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 nothing	acl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 who	case
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 do	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 is	nsubj
13	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 who	acl:relcl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	leave in a quote	imperative	you not said here	it	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	it	nothing	tree rules
3	do in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	be in a quote	present	he		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

«Say it louder»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Say	punct
2	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Say	obj
4	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 Say	ccomp
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here	it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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