Test 11 · Rude words at the table
friend: «I made a rude sign at Mr Price, he didn't even see». What's true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, friend · What happens: make, not see, be · To what, where: rude sign, Mr Price
This is test 11 of lesson 354 «Rude words at the table» 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: friend: «I made a rude sign at Mr Price, he didn't even see».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | vocative |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 friend | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sign | det |
| 7 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sign | amod |
| 8 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Price | case |
| 10 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Price | compound |
| 11 | Price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sign | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 see | advmod |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 see | advmod |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 made | parataxis |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | past | I | a rude sign | Mr Price | friend vocative | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product | ||
| 2 | not see in a quote | past · do-support | friend | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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 true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It's only rude if he's a nice teacher
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rude | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rude | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 rude | advmod |
| 4 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 teacher | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 teacher | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 teacher | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 teacher | det |
| 9 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 teacher | amod |
| 10 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rude | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | rude property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | he | a nice teacher | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It's still rude, seen or not
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rude | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rude | cop |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 rude | advmod |
| 4 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 seen | punct |
| 6 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 rude | conj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 not | cc |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 rude | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | still | rude property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
It doesn't count because he never saw it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 count | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 count | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 count | advmod |
| 4 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 saw | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 saw | advmod |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 count | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not count | present · do-support | It | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not see | past | he | it | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 4
It's fine if it's behind his back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fine | expl |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fine | cop |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 back | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 back | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 back | cop |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 9 back | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 back | nmod:poss |
| 9 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fine | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fine property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | it | his back | tree rules |
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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