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Test 7 · Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work

«they sat for six hours and said nine words, that's so dead». What's the truth?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: they, that, truth · What happens: sit, say, be · To what, where: nine words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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: «they sat for six hours and said nine words, that's so dead».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 hours	case
5	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hours	nummod
6	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sat	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
9	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 words	nummod
10	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dead	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 dead	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 dead	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 dead	advmod
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sat	advcl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit in a quote	past	they				hour		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	they not said here	nine words					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	that					dead property	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's the truth?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 truth	det
4	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the truth						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Fishing is banned from talking by law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 banned	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 banned	aux:pass
3	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 talking	mark
5	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 banned	advcl
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 law	case
7	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	present · passive		Fishing					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	talk	gerund						by law	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Some friendships don't need words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 friendships	det
2	friendships	friendship	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 need	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 need	advmod
5	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · do-support	some friendships	words					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot word=Theme

Option 3

They didn't really like each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 like	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 like	advmod
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	5 like	obj
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	They	each					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot each=Theme

Option 4

They must have fallen out on the way there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fallen	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fallen	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 fallen	aux
4	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 fallen	compound:prt
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fallen	obl
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 way	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall out	must · perfect	They			the way			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location

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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