Test 11 · A stranger's story
Stranger: «sweeties for a quick photo, yeah?» What does Zara say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Zara · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 of lesson 446 «A stranger's story» 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: Stranger: «sweeties for a quick photo, yeah?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 sweeties | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 sweeties | punct |
| 4 | sweeties | sweetie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Stranger | appos |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 photo | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 photo | det |
| 7 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 photo | amod |
| 8 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sweeties | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stranger | punct |
| 10 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 1 Stranger | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stranger | punct |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stranger | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: What does Zara say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | Zara | Zara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | Zara | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Only if the sweets are big
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 6 big | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 big | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sweets | det |
| 4 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 big | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 big | cop |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the sweets | big property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No thanks — and goes to her mum
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 thanks | det |
| 2 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 goes | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 goes | cc |
| 5 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 thanks | parataxis |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 mum | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mum | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 goes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | to her mum | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mum=Initial_Location |
Option 3
Yes, but not of my face
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 face | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 face | cc |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 face | advmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 face | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 face | nmod:poss |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Okay, one photo is fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Okay | okay | INTJ | _ | 6 fine | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Okay | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 photo | nummod |
| 4 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fine | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fine | cop |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | one photo | fine 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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