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Test 2 · Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work

«Gary's always whingin, why's Dad even mates with him». What does the midnight breakdown show?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, do · To what, where: Dad mates, breakdown show

This is test 2 of lesson 482 «Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work» 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: «Gary's always whingin, why's Dad even mates with him».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 whingin	punct
2	Gary	Gary	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 whingin	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Gary	case
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 whingin	advmod
5	whingin	whingin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mates	punct
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 mates	advmod
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 mates	cop
9	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 mates	compound
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 mates	advmod
11	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 whingin	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 mates	nmod
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 whingin	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 whingin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		Dad mates				with Gary	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 does the midnight breakdown show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 does	nsubj
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 show	det
4	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breakdown	compound
5	breakdown	breakdown	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 show	compound
6	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the breakdown show					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent show=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Gary only ever moans and never helps anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gary	Gary	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 helps	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 moans	advmod
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 moans	advmod
4	moans	moan	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Gary	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 helps	cc
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 helps	advmod
7	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 helps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not help	present	Gary moans		anyone				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Moaners are always bad friends to have

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moaners	moaner	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 friends	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 friends	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 friends	advmod
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 friends	amod
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 have	mark
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 friends	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Moaners	bad friends				always property	tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive							vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The moaner may be the one who turns up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moaner	det
2	moaner	moaner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 one	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 one	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 one	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 turns	nsubj
8	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 one	acl:relcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 turns	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	may	the moaner	the one					tree rules
2	turn up	present	the one						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Dad should drop Gary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drop	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 drop	aux
3	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Gary	Gary	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 drop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	should	Dad	Gary					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gary=Theme

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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