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Test 3 · Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van

Grandpa in Kentucky: «Cross 'em too long, they'll stick like that, sugar.» What's true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandpa, they · What happens: cross, stick, be · To what, where: 'em, sugar

This is test 3 of lesson 443 «Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van» 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 in Kentucky: «Cross 'em too long, they'll stick like that, sugar.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandpa	Grandpa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Cross	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Kentucky	case
3	Kentucky	Kentucky	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Grandpa	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Cross	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 Cross	punct
6	Cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Cross	obj
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 long	advmod
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 Cross	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stick	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stick	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 stick	aux
13	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Cross	conj
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 that	case
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 stick	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sugar	punct
17	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stick	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Cross	punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 Cross	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross in a quote	infinitive	Grandpa in Kentucky	'em = they				long property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	stick in a quote	future	they	sugar				like that	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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 true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

It only happens to grandpas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happens	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 happens	advmod
3	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 grandpas	case
5	grandpas	grandpa	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happens	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	It					to grandpas	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Your eyes stick after one minute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stick	nsubj
3	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 minute	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 minute	nummod
6	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	present	Your eyes				minute		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It happens if you cross them at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 cross	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 cross	nsubj
5	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 happens	advcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cross	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cross	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	It						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cross a condition, not said to happen	present	you	them = they			night		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Your eyes won't stick — it's a myth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stick	nsubj
3	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stick	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 stick	advmod
5	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	—	-	PUNCT	_	5 stick	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 myth	expl
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 myth	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 myth	det
10	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stick	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stick	future	Your eyes						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	is a	present		a myth					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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