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Test 8 · ★ · Stories that change

Reading log, every tick the same pen, same slant. Mum: «You doing a detective job on me?» What gave it away?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: read, do, give away · To what, where: detective job, job

This is test 8 · ★ 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: Reading log, every tick the same pen, same slant.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 log	amod
2	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tick	punct
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 tick	det
5	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 log	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pen	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pen	amod
8	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 log	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 slant	punct
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 slant	amod
11	slant	slant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pen	appos
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 log	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	gerund							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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: Mum: «You doing a detective job on me?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 doing	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 doing	punct
4	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 doing	nsubj
5	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Mum	parataxis
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 job	det
7	detective	detective	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 job	compound
8	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 doing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 doing	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Mum	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	gerund	You	a detective job				on me	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality

Sentence 3: What gave it away?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 gave	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give away	past		job				away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It had no ticks at all, not even one

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 ticks	det
4	ticks	tick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 had	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 one	advmod
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 one	advmod
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 had	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	no ticks		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tick=Patient

Option 2

It was done in pencil

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 done	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 done	aux:pass
3	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 pencil	case
5	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 done	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · passive		It		pencil			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It was too neat, done all at once

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	4 neat	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 neat	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 neat	advmod
4	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 neat	conj
7	all	all	ADV	_	6 done	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 done	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					neat property	tree rules
2	do	participle						all property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It was the wrong book

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 book	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 book	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 book	det
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 book	amod
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the wrong book					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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