Test 1 · Our street against theirs
Kieran: «Oi Sam, u're lookout tonight, just whistle if a grown-up comes». Best reply?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: u, grown up · What happens: be, grow, come
This is test 1 of lesson 382 «Our street against theirs» 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: Kieran: «Oi Sam, u're lookout tonight, just whistle if a grown-up comes».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sam | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sam | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sam | punct |
| 4 | Oi | Oi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sam | compound |
| 5 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lookout | punct |
| 7 | u | you | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 lookout | nsubj |
| 8 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lookout | cop |
| 9 | lookout | lookout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Sam | parataxis |
| 10 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lookout | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 whistle | punct |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 whistle | advmod |
| 13 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Sam | acl:relcl |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 comes | mark |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 up | det |
| 16 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 up | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 up | punct |
| 18 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 comes | nsubj |
| 19 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 whistle | advcl |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 comes | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sam | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | u | tonight | lookout property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grow in a quote | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present | a grown up | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: Best reply?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 reply | amod |
| 2 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 reply | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Fine, what time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 3 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fine | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, I'm not being part of it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 part | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 part | nsubj |
| 4 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 part | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 part | advmod |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 part | cop |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 part | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | I | part | of part | tree rules |
Option 3
OK but I won't whistle too loud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OK | ok | INTJ | _ | 6 whistle | discourse |
| 2 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 whistle | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 whistle | nsubj |
| 4 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 whistle | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 whistle | advmod |
| 6 | whistle | whistle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 loud | advmod |
| 8 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 whistle | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not whistle | future | I | loud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
OK, if Maddie's coming too then I'll come
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OK | ok | INTJ | _ | 6 coming | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 OK | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 coming | mark |
| 4 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 coming | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Maddie | case |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 coming | advmod |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 come | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 come | nsubj |
| 10 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 coming | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | come | future | I | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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