Test 10 · ★ · «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework
Leo's grandad, seeing the email home: «Bummer.» What does he mean?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grandad · What happens: see, mean · To what, where: email home
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 426 ««The dog ate it»: excuses for homework» 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: Leo's grandad, seeing the email home: «Bummer.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 grandad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Leo | case |
| 3 | grandad | grandad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seeing | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seeing | punct |
| 5 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 home | det |
| 7 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 home | compound | ||
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seeing | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Bummer | punct |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 Bummer | punct |
| 11 | Bummer | bummer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seeing | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seeing | punct |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 seeing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Leo's grandad | the email home | Bummer obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer home=Stimulus |
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 does he mean?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 mean | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | grandad | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Let's go to the shop together
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | 's | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 shop | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shop | det |
| 6 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | 's | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | 's not said here | the shop | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shop=Initial_Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
That's bad luck, too bad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 luck | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 luck | cop |
| 3 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 luck | amod |
| 4 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bad | punct |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 bad | advmod |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 luck | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | bad luck | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | That not said here | tree rules |
Option 3
I'm very angry with you indeed
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 | 4 angry | nsubj |
| 2 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 angry | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 angry | advmod |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 angry | obl |
| 7 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 angry | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | with you; angry, indeed property | tree rules |
Option 4
Well done, great work, I'm proud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 done | advmod |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 proud | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 work | punct |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 work | amod |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 done | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 done | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 proud | nsubj |
| 8 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 proud | cop |
| 9 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | I not said here | great work | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | present | I | proud property | 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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