Test 10 · ★ · Warm parents and strict parents
Kyle's mate's dad: «Whit's the magic word, son?» Kyle wasn't sure what «whit» meant. What did it mean?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit, Kyle, word · What happens: be, not be, mean · To what, where: magic word
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 493 «Warm parents and strict parents» 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: Kyle's mate's dad: «Whit's the magic word, son?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kyle | Kyle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Kyle | case |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dad | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 mate | case |
| 5 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 word | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 word | punct |
| 8 | Whit | Whit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 word | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 word | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 word | det |
| 11 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 word | amod |
| 12 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dad | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 word | vocative |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 word | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 word | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Whit | the magic word | son vocative | 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: Kyle wasn't sure what «whit» meant.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kyle | Kyle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | cop |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 sure | advmod |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 meant | obj |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 whit | punct |
| 7 | whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meant | nsubj |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 whit | punct |
| 9 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Kyle | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | past | whit | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
Sentence 3: What did it mean?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 mean | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past · do-support | word | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
White
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
What
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Wait
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Wit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wit | Wit | PROPN | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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