Test 5 · ★ · Promises to family
mate: «you said you'd come to my party, where were you?!». You went to another one. Best fix?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: say, come, be, go · To what, where: party, you, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 358 «Promises to family» 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: mate: «you said you'd come to my party, where were you?!».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | vocative |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 mate | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 come | nsubj |
| 7 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 party | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 party | nmod:poss |
| 11 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 you | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 you | advmod |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 you | cop |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 party | conj |
| 16 | ?! | ?! | PUNCT | _ | 15 you | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | you | mate vocative | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | would | you | my party | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to party=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | you not said here | you | 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: You went to another one.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | You | another one | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to one=Initial_Location |
Sentence 3: Best fix?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 fix | amod |
| 2 | fix | fix | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 fix | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Say sorry, and next time tell him beforehand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Say | xcomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tell | cc |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Say | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | iobj |
| 9 | beforehand | beforehand | ADV | _ | 7 tell | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: apologize | imperative | you not said here | sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | him = he | time | beforehand property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
Option 2
Say his party was boring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 party | nmod:poss |
| 3 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boring | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 boring | cop |
| 5 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Say | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | his party | boring property | tree rules |
Option 3
Say you were ill in bed and couldn't come
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 ill | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ill | cop |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Say | ccomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ill | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 come | cc |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 come | advmod |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ill | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | you | bed | ill property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not come | could | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Say you forgot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 forgot | nsubj |
| 3 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Say | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | forget | past | you | 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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