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Test 11 · Parents who row, and one kind and one not

Ambrose's friend says, «they speak French so u can't follow, sorted». What's the catch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend, they, u, catch · What happens: say, speak, not follow, sort, be · To what, where: French · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 496 «Parents who row, and one kind and one not» 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: Ambrose's friend says, «they speak French so u can't follow, sorted».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ambrose	Ambrose	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 friend	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ambrose	case
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 speak	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 speak	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 speak	nsubj
8	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
9	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 speak	obj
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 follow	advmod
11	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 follow	nsubj
12	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 follow	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 follow	advmod
14	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 speak	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sorted	punct
16	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 follow	parataxis
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 sorted	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ambrose's friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	speak speech: other in a quote	present	they	French					tree rules
3	not follow in a quote	can	u						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sort in a quote	participle							vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=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: What's the catch?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 catch	det
4	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Kids often understand more than grown-ups think

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 understand	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 understand	advmod
3	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 understand	obj
5	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 think	mark
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ups	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 grown	punct
8	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 think	nsubj
9	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 more	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	present	Kids	more				often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus
2	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	present	grown ups						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Kids never listen to grown-ups anyway, so it doesn't matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 listen	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 listen	advmod
3	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 ups	case
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ups	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 grown	punct
7	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 listen	obl
8	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	3 listen	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 matter	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 matter	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 matter	nsubj
12	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 matter	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 matter	advmod
14	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 listen	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not listen	present	Kids					to grown ups; anyway property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to up=Theme
2	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not matter	present · do-support	it						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Ambrose only speaks Spanish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ambrose	Ambrose	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 speaks	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 speaks	advmod
3	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 speaks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present	Ambrose	Spanish					tree rules

Option 4

French is impossible for children to learn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 impossible	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 impossible	cop
3	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 children	case
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 impossible	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 learn	mark
7	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 impossible	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	French					for children; impossible property	tree rules
2	learn	to-infinitive	French not said here						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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