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Test 10 · ★★ · The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other an…

Hamish: «Isla-Mae's no' sae bad now, she makes me toast». What does that tell you?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Hamish, that · What happens: make, tell · To what, where: toast, me, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 509 «The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs» 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: Hamish: «Isla-Mae's no' sae bad now, she makes me toast».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hamish	Hamish	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 makes	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 bad	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 bad	punct
4	Isla	Isla	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Mae	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Mae	punct
6	Mae	Mae	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 bad	nsubj
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Mae	case
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 bad	det
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 bad	punct
10	sae	sae	ADV	_	11 bad	advmod
11	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hamish	amod
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 bad	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 makes	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 makes	nsubj
15	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 makes	obj
17	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 makes	obj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 makes	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	present	Hamish	toast	me				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary toast=Product

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 does that tell you?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	that		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1

She is being paid to do it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 paid	aux:pass
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 paid	aux:pass
4	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 paid	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present · passive		She					tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive		it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2

He now hates toast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hates	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 hates	advmod
3	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hates	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	He	toast			now		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer toast=Stimulus

Option 3

She has always been nice to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nice	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 nice	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 nice	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 nice	cop
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nice	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	She		him = he			always, nice property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Hard times brought them closer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 times	amod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 brought	obl:unmarked
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	obj
5	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 brought	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past		them = they			time	close property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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