Test 11 · ★★ · The best friend who moves away
«mia talks proper weird now, saying y'all». What's happened?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: mia · What happens: talk, say, happen · To what, where: proper weird · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 463 «The best friend who moves away» 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: «mia talks proper weird now, saying y'all».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 talks | punct |
| 2 | mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 talks | nsubj |
| 3 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 weird | amod |
| 5 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 talks | obj |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 weird | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saying | punct |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 talks | advcl |
| 9 | y'all | y'all | ADV | _ | 8 saying | advmod |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 saying | punct |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 talks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk in a quote | present | mia | proper weird | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent weird=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | gerund | mia not said here | y'all property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «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's happened?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | aux:pass |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present · passive | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
She's in a play
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 play | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 play | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 play | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 play | det |
| 5 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | She | a play | tree rules |
Option 2
She's forgotten English
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 forgotten | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 3 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 forgotten | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | present · passive | She | tree rules |
Option 3
She's just showing off to look cool
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 showing | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 showing | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 showing | advmod |
| 4 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 showing | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 look | mark |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 showing | advcl |
| 8 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 look | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show off | present · progressive | She | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | She not said here | cool property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
She picked up words from where she lived
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 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 picked | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 where | case |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 lived | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 picked | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | She | words | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 2 | live | past | she | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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