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Test 4 · ★★ · Covering for a friend

Kid in Toronto: «we didn't take anything, eh?» — her friend did. What does «eh» do here?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we, friend · What happens: not take, do · To what, where: anything

This is test 4 · ★★ 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: Kid in Toronto: «we didn't take anything, eh?» — her friend did.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Toronto	case
3	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kid	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Kid	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 take	punct
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 take	nsubj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 take	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 take	advmod
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Kid	parataxis
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 take	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eh	punct
12	eh	eh	INTJ	_	9 take	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 take	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 take	punct
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 did	punct
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 friend	nmod:poss
17	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 did	nsubj
18	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Kid	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Kid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not take in a quote	past · do-support	we	anything					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
2	do	past	Toronto's friend						vn act-114-1 «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: What does «eh» do here?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 eh	punct
4	eh	eh	INTJ	_	6 do	discourse
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 eh	punct
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 do	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support				here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Means «hello»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Means	means	NOUN	Number=Ptan	root	root
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 hello	punct
3	hello	hello	INTJ	_	1 Means	obj
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 hello	punct

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

Option 2

Means «no»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Means	means	NOUN	Number=Ptan	root	root
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 no	punct
3	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	1 Means	discourse
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Means	punct

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Asks «right?» at the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct
3	right	right	INTJ	_	1 Asks	discourse
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Asks	punct
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Asks	punct
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present					at the end		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Means she's very tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Means	means	NOUN	Number=Ptan	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tired	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tired	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 tired	advmod
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Means	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she	Means not said here				tired 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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