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Test 6 · ★ · Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform

Jory: «shut up, they're my lucky shoes, the cardboard's on purpose». Why might he say that?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jory, they, cardboard · What happens: shut up, be, purpose, say · To what, where: lucky shoes, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 487 «Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform» 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: Jory: «shut up, they're my lucky shoes, the cardboard's on purpose».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jory	Jory	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 shut	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 shut	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 shut	punct
4	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 shut	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shoes	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 shoes	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 shoes	cop
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shoes	nmod:poss
10	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shoes	amod
11	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shut	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 purpose	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cardboard	det
14	cardboard	cardboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 purpose	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 cardboard	case
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 purpose	case
17	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shoes	appos
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 purpose	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut up in a quote	infinitive	Jory						vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	they	my lucky shoes					tree rules
3	purpose in a quote		the cardboard						nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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: Why might he say that?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 say	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 say	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	might	Jory	that					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic

The options

Option 1

He's showing off his brand-new running trainers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 showing	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 showing	aux
3	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 showing	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 trainers	nmod:poss
6	brand	brand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 new	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 brand	punct
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trainers	amod
9	running	running	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trainers	compound
10	trainers	trainer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 showing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show off	present · progressive	He	his new running trainers					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent trainer=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He really believes cardboard is lucky in PE

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 believes	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 believes	advmod
3	believes	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cardboard	cardboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lucky	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lucky	cop
6	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 believes	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 PE	case
8	PE	PE	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lucky	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	present	He						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	cardboard			PE		lucky property	tree rules

Option 3

He wants everybody to copy his shoes tomorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 wants	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 copy	mark
5	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 shoes	nmod:poss
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 copy	obj
8	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 copy	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	He	everybody					tree rules
2	copy not said to happen	to-infinitive	everybody not said here	his shoes			tomorrow		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He's embarrassed and hiding that money is short

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 embarrassed	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 embarrassed	cop
3	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hiding	cc
5	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 embarrassed	conj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 short	mark
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 short	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 short	cop
9	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hiding	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					embarrassed property	tree rules
2	hide	gerund	He not said here						vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	money					short 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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