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Test 4 · ★ · Stories that change

Kid: «I didn't, I swear on my nan's life, honest, I'd never, I promise!!» What does all that swearing suggest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, swearing · What happens: not do, swear, not promise, suggest · To what, where: Kid, life

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 449 «Stories that change» 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: «I didn't, I swear on my nan's life, honest, I'd never, I promise!!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obl:unmarked
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Kid	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	1 Kid	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 did	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 swear	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 swear	nsubj
9	swear	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
10	on	on	ADP	_	14 life	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 nan	nmod:poss
12	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 life	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 nan	case
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swear	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 honest	punct
16	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 swear	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 promise	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 promise	nsubj
19	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 promise	aux
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 promise	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 never	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 promise	nsubj
23	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
24	!!	!!	PUNCT	_	23 promise	punct
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 promise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do in a quote	past	I	Kid					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	swear in a quote	present	I			my nan's life			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not promise speech: promise in a quote	would	I						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: 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 all that swearing suggest?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 suggest	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 suggest	aux
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 swearing	det:predet
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 swearing	det
5	swearing	swearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 suggest	nsubj
6	suggest	suggest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 suggest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	present · do-support	all swearing						vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She's just being polite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 polite	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 polite	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 polite	advmod
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 polite	cop
5	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

She's very religious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 religious	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 religious	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 religious	advmod
4	religious	religious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

It proves she's honest

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 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 honest	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 honest	cop
5	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 proves	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	she					honest property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It may be a sign of lying

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	5 sign	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sign	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 sign	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sign	det
5	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 lying	case
7	lying	lying	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sign	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	may	It	a sign				of lying	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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