Test 6 · ★ · Sleepovers and inside jokes
«why's lily saying howay at home, she's not even from newcastle». What happened?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: say, not be, happen · To what, where: howay, home, newcastle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 462 «Sleepovers and inside jokes» 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: «why's lily saying howay at home, she's not even from newcastle».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 saying | punct |
| 2 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saying | advmod |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 saying | aux |
| 4 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saying | compound |
| 5 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | howay | howay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saying | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saying | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 newcastle | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 newcastle | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 newcastle | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 newcastle | advmod |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 newcastle | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 newcastle | case |
| 15 | newcastle | newcastle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saying | ccomp |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 newcastle | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saying | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present · progressive | howay | home | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent howay=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | she | newcastle | tree rules |
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 happened?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
She's moving to Newcastle
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 | 3 moving | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 moving | aux |
| 3 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Newcastle | case |
| 5 | Newcastle | Newcastle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 moving | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present · progressive | She | Newcastle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to newcastle=Result |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
She picked up a Geordie word from Maddie's mum
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 | 2 picked | nsubj |
| 2 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 picked | compound:prt |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 5 | Geordie | Geordie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 word | compound |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 picked | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 mum | case |
| 8 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 mum | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Maddie | case |
| 10 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 word | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | She | a Geordie word | from Maddie's mum | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
Option 3
It's a word from a game she plays online with mates
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 word | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 word | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 word | det |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plays | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 game | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 game | det |
| 7 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 word | nmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 plays | nsubj |
| 9 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | online | online | ADV | _ | 9 plays | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 mates | case |
| 12 | mates | mate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 plays | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a word | a game | tree rules | |||
| 2 | play | present | a word | with mates; online property | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with mate=Theme |
Option 4
She made it up herself
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 | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | 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 made | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 made | compound:prt |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past | She | it | herself = she obl | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot |
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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