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Test 12 · ★★ · The forged signature and how it always ends

Sophie's dad laughed, then stopped laughing. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: laugh, stop

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 429 «The forged signature and how it always ends» 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: Sophie's dad laughed, then stopped laughing.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sophie	Sophie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Sophie	case
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stopped	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 stopped	advmod
7	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
8	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stopped	xcomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	Sophie's dad						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stop	past	Sophie's dad not said here				then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	laugh	gerund	Sophie's dad not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He thought the mistake on the report was his own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mistake	det
4	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 own	nsubj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 report	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 report	det
7	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mistake	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 own	cop
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 own	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the mistake on the report					own property	tree rules

Option 2

He was pleased with the new report

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pleased	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pleased	cop
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 report	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 report	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 report	amod
7	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pleased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					with the new report; pleased property	tree rules

Option 3

He didn't understand the joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 understand	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 understand	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 understand	advmod
4	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 joke	det
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 understand	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not understand	past · do-support	He	the joke					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer joke=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He saw it was funny but also a serious lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 funny	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 funny	cop
5	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 saw	ccomp
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 lie	cc
7	also	also	ADV	_	10 lie	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lie	det
9	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lie	amod
10	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	He						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	it					funny 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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