Test 8 · ★ · Older siblings and YouTube gameplay
Ruby: «why did you wait till 18 for GTA?» Sister: «...» What did she say?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, GTA · What happens: wait, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 423 «Older siblings and YouTube gameplay» 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: Ruby: «why did you wait till 18 for GTA?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wait | vocative |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ruby | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 wait | punct |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 wait | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wait | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 wait | nsubj |
| 7 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | till | till | ADP | _ | 9 18 | case |
| 9 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 wait | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 GTA | case |
| 11 | GTA | GTA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wait | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 wait | punct |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | past · do-support | you | till 18 | for GTA; Ruby vocative | vn exist-47.1 «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: Sister: «...»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sister | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sister | punct |
| 4 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sister | punct |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sister | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: What did she say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | GTA | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1
Mum had hidden it in the attic for years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hidden | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hidden | aux |
| 3 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hidden | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 attic | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 attic | det |
| 7 | attic | attic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hidden | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hidden | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past · perfect | Mum | it | the attic | year | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in attic=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
I got the jokes and story, not just shooting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 jokes | det |
| 4 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 story | cc |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jokes | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shooting | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 shooting | advmod |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 shooting | advmod |
| 10 | shooting | shoot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 got | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | I | the jokes and story | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer joke=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not shoot | gerund | I not said here | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
It was too hard to play when I was little
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hard | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hard | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 hard | advmod |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 play | mark |
| 6 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hard | xcomp |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 little | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 little | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 little | cop |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 play | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | hard property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | I | little property | tree rules |
Option 4
The game wasn't invented before I was 18
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 game | det |
| 2 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 invented | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 invented | aux:pass |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 invented | advmod |
| 5 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 18 | case |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 18 | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 18 | cop |
| 9 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 invented | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not invent | past · passive | the game | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 2 | is | past | I | before 18 | 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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