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Test 2 · The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door

«Grumpy Grimshaw just hates kids, simple». Is it that simple?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grumpy, it · What happens: hate, be · To what, where: kids

This is test 2 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: «Grumpy Grimshaw just hates kids, simple».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 hates	punct
2	Grumpy	Grumpy	PROPN	_	5 hates	nsubj
3	Grimshaw	Grimshaw	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Grumpy	flat
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 hates	advmod
5	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hates	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 simple	punct
8	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kids	amod
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 hates	punct
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hates	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate in a quote	present	Grumpy	kids					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kid=Stimulus

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: Is it that simple?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 simple	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 simple	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 simple	nsubj
4	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 simple	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					simple property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

No, he secretly owns a sweet shop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 owns	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 owns	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 owns	nsubj
4	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	5 owns	advmod
5	owns	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shop	det
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shop	amod
8	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 owns	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own	present	he	a sweet shop				secretly property	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot shop=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, he was lonely and his plants got wrecked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 lonely	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lonely	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lonely	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lonely	cop
5	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wrecked	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 plants	nmod:poss
8	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wrecked	nsubj
9	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wrecked	aux:pass
10	wrecked	wreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 lonely	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					lonely property	tree rules
2	wreck	past · passive		his plants					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, some people just hate all kids, full stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 hate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hate	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 hate	advmod
6	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 kids	det
8	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hate	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stop	punct
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stop	amod
11	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kids	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	some people	all kids and full stop					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kid=Stimulus

Option 4

Yes, all old people are grumpy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 grumpy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 people	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grumpy	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 grumpy	cop
7	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all old people					grumpy property	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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