Test 9 · ★ · Promises to family
You can't make it to Gran's on Sunday after all. When should you tell her?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: not make, tell · To what, where: it, Gran · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ 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: You can't make it to Gran's on Sunday after all.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 make | advmod |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Gran | case |
| 7 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obl |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Gran | case |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Sunday | case |
| 10 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obl |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 make | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | can | You | it | Gran | after all; sunday | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
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: When should you tell her?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 tell | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | should | you | Gran | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
The options
Option 1
Never, she'll guess anyway
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 guess | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Never | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 guess | nsubj |
| 4 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 guess | aux |
| 5 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 5 guess | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not guess | future | she | anyway property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
After she's cooked the dinner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 cooked | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cooked | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cooked | aux:pass |
| 4 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dinner | det |
| 6 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cooked | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | present · passive | she | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary dinner=Product |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
As soon as you know
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 know | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 soon | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
Late on Sunday afternoon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 afternoon | case |
| 3 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 afternoon | compound |
| 4 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Late | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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