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Test 10 · The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door

Kieran: «he gives us toffees now, he's proper sound». What changed Mr Grimshaw?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kieran · What happens: give, be, change · To what, where: us, proper sound, Mr Grimshaw

This is test 10 of lesson 473 «The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door» 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: Kieran: «he gives us toffees now, he's proper sound».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 gives	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Kieran	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 gives	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gives	nsubj
5	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 gives	iobj
7	toffees	toffee	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 us	nmod:unmarked
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 gives	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sound	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sound	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sound	cop
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sound	amod
13	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gives	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 sound	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	present	Kieran		us		now		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	Kieran	proper sound					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 changed Mr Grimshaw?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 changed	nsubj
2	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Grimshaw	flat
4	Grimshaw	Grimshaw	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 changed	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 changed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past		Mr Grimshaw					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grimshaw=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The kids threatened him over the fence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kids	det
2	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 threatened	nsubj
3	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 threatened	obj
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 fence	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fence	det
7	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threatened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	threaten	past	the kids	him = he		the fence			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

Option 2

Nothing, he was always like that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 always	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 always	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	acl
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 always	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					always property	tree rules

Option 3

He won the lottery and cheered up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lottery	det
4	lottery	lottery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 won	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cheered	cc
6	cheered	cheer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 won	conj
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 cheered	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	He	the lottery					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lottery=Eventuality
2	cheer up	participle	He not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Kindness and an honest sorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sorry	cc
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sorry	det
4	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sorry	amod
5	sorry	sorry	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kindness	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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