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Test 9 · ★ · The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff

★★★ Nomsa says «now now» on Monday (meaning soon) and «just now» on Tuesday (meaning later). Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: say, mean, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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: ★★★ Nomsa says «now now» on Monday (meaning soon) and «just now» on Tuesday (meaning later).

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ★	list
4	Nomsa	Nomsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	flat
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 now	punct
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 now	advmod
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 says	ccomp
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 now	punct
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 Monday	case
11	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 says	obl
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 meaning	punct
13	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 says	parataxis
14	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 meaning	advmod
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 meaning	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 meaning	cc
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 now	punct
18	just	just	ADV	_	19 now	advmod
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 meaning	advmod
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 now	punct
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 Tuesday	case
22	Tuesday	Tuesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 meaning	obl
23	(	(	PUNCT	_	24 meaning	punct
24	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 says	conj
25	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 meaning	advmod
26	)	)	PUNCT	_	25 later	punct
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	★				monday		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	mean	gerund						soon property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	mean	gerund	★ not said here				now; tuesday	late property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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: Which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

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

Both mean not this second

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 mean	nsubj
2	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 mean	advmod
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 second	nsubj
5	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 mean	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mean	present	Both						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

«Now now» means right this second

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 means	advmod
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 means	advmod
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 now	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	right	right	ADV	_	8 second	advmod
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 second	nsubj
8	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 means	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present					now; now	second property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Both mean never

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 mean	nsubj
2	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 mean	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mean	present	Both						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

«Just now» means a minute ago, always

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 now	punct
2	Just	just	ADV	_	3 now	advmod
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 means	advmod
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 now	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 minute	det
7	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ago	obl:unmarked
8	ago	ago	ADV	_	5 means	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 means	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present					now	ago, always property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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