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Test 1 · ★★ · Boasting cousins and made-up holidays

Grandpa: «How many seconds, son?» Why does he keep asking this?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: keep, ask · To what, where: this

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 435 «Boasting cousins and made-up holidays» 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: Grandpa: «How many seconds, son?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 seconds	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 seconds	punct
4	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seconds	amod
6	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Grandpa	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 son	punct
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seconds	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Grandpa	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Grandpa	punct

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

Sentence 2: Why does he keep asking this?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 keep	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 asking	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · do-support	he						tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	he not said here	this					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient

The options

Option 1

Because rodeos have big timers on the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 have	mark
2	rodeos	rodeo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 timers	amod
5	timers	timer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 wall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wall	det
8	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	rodeos	big timers		the wall			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent timer=Patient

Option 2

Because he likes counting things out loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 likes	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 likes	nsubj
3	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	counting	count	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 likes	xcomp
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 counting	obj
6	out	out	ADV	_	7 loud	advmod
7	loud	loud	ADV	_	4 counting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	count not said to happen	gerund	he not said here	things				loud property	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Because Jake rides bulls every day on Grandpa's farm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 rides	mark
2	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rides	nsubj
3	rides	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rides	obj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rides	obl:unmarked
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 farm	case
8	Grandpa	Grandpa	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 farm	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Grandpa	case
10	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rides	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	present	Jake	bulls		Grandpa's farm	day		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bull=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To remind Jake how tall his tales are

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 remind	mark
2	remind	remind	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 remind	obj
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 tall	advmod
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 remind	ccomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tales	nmod:poss
7	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tall	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tall	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remind speech: other	to-infinitive			Jake				vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jake=Recipient
2	is	present	Jake's tales					tall property	tree rules
3	tell		Jake						nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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