Test 5 · ★★ · Boasting cousins and made-up holidays
Mila: «I swear I swam with dolphins!!» Friends: «you said you met a mermaid last year». What's the lesson?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, Friends, you, lesson · What happens: swear, swim, say, meet, be · To what, where: mermaid · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★★ 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: Mila: «I swear I swam with dolphins!!»
vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2
swimin a quote
past
I
with dolphins
vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with dolphin=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: Friends: «you said you met a mermaid last year».
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.