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Test 9 · ★ · Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper

«Eat them hot, mija». What is Mrs Lopez doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Mrs · What happens: eat, do · To what, where: them

This is test 9 · ★ 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: «Eat them hot, mija».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Eat	punct
2	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Eat	obj
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Eat	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mija	punct
6	mija	mija	X	Foreign=Yes	2 Eat	obj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 mija	punct
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	imperative	you not said here	them = they				hot 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 Mrs Lopez doing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 doing	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 doing	aux
3	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 doing	nsubj
4	Lopez	Lopez	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Mrs	flat
5	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 doing	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Asking Mia to cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Asking	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 cook	mark
4	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Asking	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund			Mia				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent mia=Recipient clause=Topic
2	cook not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Selling her tamales to the family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tamales	nmod:poss
3	tamales	tamale	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Selling	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 family	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 family	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Selling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	gerund		her tamales	the family				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tamale=Theme to family=Recipient

Option 3

Telling Mia off for leaving them to go cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Telling	compound:prt
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	5 leaving	mark
5	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Telling	advcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 leaving	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 leaving	xcomp
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell off speech: assert	gerund			Mia				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mia=Recipient
2	leave	gerund		them = they					tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive	them = they not said here					cold property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sharing food, which builds friendship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharing	share	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sharing	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 builds	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 builds	nsubj
5	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 food	acl:relcl
6	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 builds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	gerund		food					tree rules
2	build	present	food	friendship					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friendship=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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