Test 2 · ★★ · Covering for a friend
Mate: «if anyone asks, I was at yours Saturday, yeah?» What's the honest answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: anyone, Mate, honest answer · What happens: ask, be
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 436 «Covering for a friend» 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: Mate: «if anyone asks, I was at yours Saturday, yeah?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 yours | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 yours | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 yours | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 asks | mark |
| 5 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 asks | nsubj |
| 6 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 yours | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 asks | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 yours | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 yours | cop |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 yours | case |
| 11 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 12 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 yours | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Saturday | punct |
| 14 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 11 yours | discourse |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 yours | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 yours | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | anyone | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | Mate | saturday | at yours | tree rules |
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's the honest answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 answer | det |
| 4 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 answer | amod |
| 5 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the honest answer | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
«Only if you pay me for it»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 pay | punct |
| 2 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 pay | advmod |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 pay | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 pay | nsubj |
| 5 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pay | iobj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pay | obl |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 pay | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay in a quote | present | you | me | for it | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Asset for it=Theme |
Option 2
«Yes, but only to my mum»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 mum | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 mum | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mum | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 mum | cc |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 mum | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 mum | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mum | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 mum | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
«I won't lie for you, sorry»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 lie | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 lie | nsubj |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 lie | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 lie | advmod |
| 5 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 lie | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lie | punct |
| 9 | sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | 5 lie | discourse |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 lie | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lie in a quote | future | I | for you | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
«Sure, no problem, mate»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 problem | punct |
| 2 | Sure | sure | INTJ | _ | 5 problem | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 problem | punct |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 problem | det |
| 5 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mate | punct |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 problem | vocative |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 problem | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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