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Test 6 · ★ · Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper

«Mrs Platt is pure evil, she moans about everything». What did the icy day show?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mrs · What happens: be, moan, do · To what, where: icy day show

This is test 6 · ★ 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: «Mrs Platt is pure evil, she moans about everything».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Mrs	punct
2	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 evil	nsubj
3	Platt	Platt	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Mrs	flat
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 evil	cop
5	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 evil	amod
6	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 moans	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 moans	nsubj
9	moans	moan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 evil	parataxis
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 everything	case
11	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 moans	obl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 moans	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 evil	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Mrs					evil property	tree rules
2	moan in a quote	present	Mrs					about everything	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about everything=Topic

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 did the icy day show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 show	det
4	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 show	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 show	compound
6	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She wanted something new to complain about, like the leg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 wanted	obj
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 something	amod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 complain	mark
6	complain	complain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 something	acl
7	about	about	ADV	_	6 complain	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 leg	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 leg	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 leg	det
11	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	She	something				like the leg	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme
2	complain speech: other	to-infinitive	She not said here	something not said here				about property	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Grumpy people can be very kind when it matters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kind	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 kind	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 kind	advmod
6	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 matters	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 matters	nsubj
9	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	Grumpy people					kind property	tree rules
2	matter	present	it						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Grumpy people are never kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kind	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	cop
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 kind	advmod
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Grumpy people					kind property	tree rules

Option 4

She was only being nosy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nosy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nosy	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 nosy	advmod
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 nosy	cop
5	nosy	nosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					nosy 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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