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Test 3 · ★★ · Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours

«Declan's da is loaded cos he's a gangster, everyone says». Is «everyone says» proof?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Declan, everyone · What happens: load, be, say · To what, where: da · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 492 «Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours» 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: «Declan's da is loaded cos he's a gangster, everyone says».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 loaded	punct
2	Declan	Declan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 da	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Declan	case
4	da	da	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loaded	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 loaded	aux:pass
6	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 says	ccomp
7	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	11 gangster	case
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gangster	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gangster	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 gangster	det
11	gangster	gangster	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loaded	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 says	nsubj
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	load in a quote	present · passive		Declan's da					vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	Declan					cos a gangster	tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present	everyone						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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: Is «everyone says» proof?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	cop
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
6	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	everyone					say property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Yes, rich people are gangsters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 rich	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gangsters	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gangsters	cop
6	gangsters	gangster	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	rich people	gangsters					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, a rumour isn't proof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 proof	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rumour	det
4	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 proof	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 proof	cop
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 proof	advmod
7	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	a rumour	proof					tree rules

Option 3

Yes, if lots of people say it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 say	mark
4	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lots	nmod
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 say	obj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

No, only teachers can say it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 teachers	advmod
4	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 say	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	obj

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

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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