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Test 11 · ★★ · When the story falls apart

Grace: «that packet's been there ages, I swear». Mum reads the date out like a detective. What gave Grace away?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: packet, I, Mum · What happens: be, swear, read out, give away · To what, where: ages, date, Grace

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 431 «When the story falls apart» 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: Grace: «that packet's been there ages, I swear».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 ages	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 ages	punct
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 packet	det
5	packet	packet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ages	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 ages	cop
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 ages	cop
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 been	advmod
9	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Grace	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 swear	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 swear	nsubj
12	swear	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 ages	parataxis
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 swear	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Grace	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	that packet	ages					tree rules
2	swear in a quote	present	I						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: 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: Mum reads the date out like a detective.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reads	nsubj
2	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 date	det
4	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reads	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	2 reads	compound:prt
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 detective	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 detective	det
8	detective	detective	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reads	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reads	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read out	present	Mum	the date				like a detective	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Topic

Sentence 3: What gave Grace away?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 gave	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give away	past		Grace				away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent grace=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Her sister telling on her at dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 sister	acl
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 telling	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 dinner	case
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 telling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund	Her sister not said here			dinner		on her = she	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

A crumb trail leading all the way to the kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 trail	det
2	crumb	crumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trail	compound
3	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 trail	acl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 way	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leading	obl:unmarked
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 kitchen	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kitchen	det
10	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leading	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	gerund	a crumb trail not said here	all way				to the kitchen	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to kitchen=Patient

Option 3

A camera hidden in her room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 camera	det
2	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 camera	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 room	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 room	nmod:poss
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	participle		a camera not said here		her room			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A tiny clue — the date and the shopping day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 clue	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clue	amod
3	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 date	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 date	det
6	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clue	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 day	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 day	det
9	shopping	shopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 day	compound
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 date	conj

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

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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