Test 8 · Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work
«Howay man, divvent be daft!» What is Donna saying?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Howay man, Donna · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 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: «Howay man, divvent be daft!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 daft | punct |
| 2 | Howay | Howay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 man | compound |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 daft | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 divvent | punct |
| 5 | divvent | divvent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | conj |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 daft | cop |
| 7 | daft | daft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 daft | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 daft | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | Howay man and divvent | daft 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 is Donna saying?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 saying | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 saying | aux |
| 3 | Donna | Donna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saying | nsubj |
| 4 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 saying | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · progressive | Donna | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Go away, you're daft
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 daft | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 daft | nsubj |
| 5 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 daft | cop |
| 6 | daft | daft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Go | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | imperative | you not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | daft property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Come on, don't be silly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADV | _ | 1 Come | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 silly | punct |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 silly | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 silly | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 silly | cop |
| 7 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Come | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come on | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not is | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | silly property | tree rules |
Option 3
Come here, you're late
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Come | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 late | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 late | nsubj |
| 5 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 late | cop |
| 6 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Come | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | late property | tree rules |
Option 4
Hello, how are you
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hello | hello | INTJ | _ | 3 how | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hello | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 how | cop |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 how | nsubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | how property | tree rules |
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