Test 4 · ★ · The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff
Iona's friend says, «Ugh, Morven took your clips, that's well rude». What makes it okay this time?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend, Morven, that · What happens: say, take, be, make · To what, where: clips, it · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 500 «The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff» 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: Iona's friend says, «Ugh, Morven took your clips, that's well rude».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iona | Iona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Iona | 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 | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 7 | Ugh | ugh | INTJ | _ | 10 took | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ugh | punct |
| 9 | Morven | Morven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 clips | nmod:poss |
| 12 | clips | clip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rude | punct |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 rude | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 rude | cop |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 rude | advmod |
| 17 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 took | parataxis |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 rude | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Iona's friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take in a quote | past | Morven | your clips | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clip=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | that | rude, well 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 makes it okay this time?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | okay | okay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 makes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | it | time | okay property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material it=Product |
The options
Option 1
Iona is younger, so it doesn't count
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iona | Iona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 younger | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 younger | cop |
| 3 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 count | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 count | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 count | nsubj |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 count | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 count | advmod |
| 9 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 younger | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Iona | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not count | present · do-support | it | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
Morven paid for them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Morven | Morven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 paid | nsubj |
| 2 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 paid | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | Morven | for them = they | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for they=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Morven asked and said thanks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Morven | Morven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Morven | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | thanks | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Clips aren't real property
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clips | clip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 property | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 property | cop |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 property | advmod |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 property | amod |
| 5 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | Clips | real 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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