Test 6 · ★★ · The best friend who moves away
Your mate's moving to Canada and says «we'll game every Friday». What should you check first?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, we, you · What happens: move, say, game, check · To what, where: Canada · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★★ 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: Your mate's moving to Canada and says «we'll game every Friday».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moving | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 moving | aux |
| 4 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Canada | case |
| 6 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 moving | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 says | cc |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 moving | conj |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 game | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 game | nsubj |
| 11 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 game | aux |
| 12 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | ccomp |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 Friday | det |
| 14 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 game | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 Friday | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 moving | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present · progressive | Your mate | Canada | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to canada=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Your mate not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | game in a quote | future | we | friday | 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 should you check first?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 check | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 check | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 check | nsubj |
| 4 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 check | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 check | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | should | you | first property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
That your mate pays for it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 mate | det |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mate | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pays | nsubj |
| 4 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pays | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | present | your mate | for it | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |
Option 2
That the game is the newest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 game | det |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 game | det |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 newest | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 newest | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 newest | det |
| 6 | newest | new | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that game | new property | tree rules |
Option 3
Nothing at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Nothing | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
That your parents are OK with it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 OK | nsubj |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 parents | nmod:poss |
| 3 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 OK | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 OK | cop |
| 5 | OK | ok | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 OK | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | with it; ok property | tree rules |
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