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Test 9 · Jake and the head teacher

Jake's been good for a month but a dinner lady still says «watch him, that one». Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jake, dinner lady · What happens: be, say, watch · To what, where: Jake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 of lesson 373 «Jake and the head teacher» 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: Jake's been good for a month but a dinner lady still says «watch him, that one».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 good	nsubj
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Jake	case
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 good	cop
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 month	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 month	det
7	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 good	obl
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 says	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lady	det
10	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lady	compound
11	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	nsubj
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 says	advmod
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 good	conj
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 watch	punct
15	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 says	ccomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 watch	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 one	punct
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 watch	conj
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 watch	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	participle	Jake				month	good property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	a dinner lady				still		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	watch in a quote	infinitive		Jake					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Jake has not really changed at all, he's only pretending

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 changed	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 changed	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 changed	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 changed	advmod
5	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 changed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pretending	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pretending	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 pretending	aux
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 pretending	advmod
12	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 changed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	present · perfect	Jake			all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pretend	present · progressive	Jake						tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

People's view changes slower than behaviour does

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 view	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 People	case
3	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 changes	nsubj
4	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 changes	xcomp
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	8 does	mark
7	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 does	nsubj
8	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slower	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	People's view					slow property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	behaviour						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	view		People						nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

She has been told to say it

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 told	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		She					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4

Dinner ladies never like anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ladies	compound
2	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 ladies	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 anyone	case
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 ladies	nmod

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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