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Test 6 · Maddie the tomboy

Gran: «I was just as wild at your age». What is Gran telling Maddie?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, Gran · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: age, Maddie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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: Gran: «I was just as wild at your age».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Gran	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 wild	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 wild	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wild	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 wild	advmod
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 wild	advmod
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Gran	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 age	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 age	nmod:poss
11	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wild	obl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 wild	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Gran	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	I				at your age	wild property	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: What is Gran telling Maddie?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 telling	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 telling	aux
3	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 telling	nsubj
4	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 telling	iobj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 telling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	Gran		Maddie				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent maddie=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Maddie should stay indoors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stay	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	3 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	should	Maddie					indoors property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

She never liked climbing anything at all as a girl

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	3 liked	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 liked	advmod
3	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	climbing	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 liked	xcomp
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 climbing	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 anything	nmod
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 girl	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 girl	det
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climbing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	past	She						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	climb not said to happen	gerund	She not said here	anything		all		as a girl	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location anything=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She wants Maddie to fight

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	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wants	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fight	mark
5	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	She	Maddie					tree rules
2	fight not said to happen	to-infinitive	Maddie not said here						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Being wild as a kid is nothing new

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 wild	cop
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nothing	csubj
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 kid	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wild	obl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 nothing	cop
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nothing	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						as a kid; wild property	tree rules
2	is a	present		nothing					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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