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Test 1 · ★ · Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper

«they haven't spoken in 11 years so they never will». What actually happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not speak, happen · To what, where: they · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 483 «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» 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 haven't spoken in 11 years so they never will».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 spoken	punct
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spoken	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 spoken	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 spoken	advmod
5	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 years	case
7	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spoken	obl
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 will	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 will	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 will	advmod
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 spoken	advcl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 spoken	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spoken	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other in a quote	present · perfect · passive		they			year		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 actually happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happened	nsubj
2	actually	actually	ADV	_	3 happened	advmod
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past						actually property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They had a big fight at the funeral

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fight	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fight	amod
5	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 funeral	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 funeral	det
8	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	a big fight		the funeral			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Patient

Option 2

One of them sold up and moved to Spain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sold	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 sold	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 moved	cc
7	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sold	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Spain	case
9	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 moved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell up	past	One of them						vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	move	participle	One of them not said here		Spain				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to spain=Result

Option 3

They never spoke to each other again

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	3 spoke	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 spoke	advmod
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 each	case
5	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	3 spoke	obl
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 each	fixed
7	again	again	ADV	_	3 spoke	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	past	They				again	to each	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to each=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They made peace after the funeral

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	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 funeral	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 funeral	det
6	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	They	peace			after the funeral		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product

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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