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Test 4 · Maddie the tomboy

«the rec lot say no girls, them's the rules». Are they?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rec lot, girls · What happens: say, be · To what, where: girls, rules · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 of lesson 378 «Maddie the tomboy» 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: «the rec lot say no girls, them's the rules».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lot	det
3	rec	rec	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lot	compound
4	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 girls	det
7	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rules	punct
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rules	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 rules	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rules	det
12	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	ccomp
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 rules	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	the rec lot	no girls					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent girl=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	girls = girl	the rules					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: Are they?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Are	nsubj
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Are	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	girls = girl						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Yes, the council says so on a sign

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 council	det
4	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	5 says	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 sign	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sign	det
9	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the council			a sign			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it's the law in this country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 law	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 law	expl
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 law	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 law	det
6	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 country	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 country	det
9	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 law	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, it's just a habit, not a real rule

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 habit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 habit	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 habit	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 habit	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 habit	det
7	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rule	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 rule	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 rule	det
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rule	amod
12	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 habit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a habit and a real rule					tree rules

Option 4

Only on Sundays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 Sundays	advmod
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 Sundays	case
3	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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