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Test 4 · ★★ · The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other an…

Fern, sulking: «Nan says I'm trouble, so I might as well be trouble, innit». What's a better way to think?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fern, better way · What happens: sulk, say, be, innit, think · To what, where: trouble · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ 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: Fern, sulking: «Nan says I'm trouble, so I might as well be trouble, innit».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fern	fern	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sulking	punct
3	sulking	sulk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Fern	conj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
6	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 trouble	nsubj
9	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 trouble	cop
10	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 trouble	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	18 trouble	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 trouble	nsubj
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 trouble	aux
15	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	18 trouble	cc
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 as	fixed
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 trouble	cop
18	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 innit	punct
20	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 trouble	conj
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 trouble	punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sulk	gerund	Fern not said here						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Fern						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	Fern	trouble					tree rules
4	is a in a quote	might	Fern	trouble					tree rules
5	innit in a quote	infinitive	Fern not said here						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's a better way to think?

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 think	mark
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a better way						tree rules
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	a better way not said here						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Labels are always true, so she should give up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Labels	label	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 true	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 true	advmod
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 give	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 give	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 give	aux
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 true	parataxis
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 give	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Labels					always, true property	tree rules
2	give up	should	she						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A label isn't her; she can show them more of herself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 label	det
2	label	label	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 her	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 her	cop
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 her	advmod
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 show	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 show	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 show	aux
9	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 her	parataxis
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 show	obj
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 show	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 herself	case
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 more	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	a label	her = she					tree rules
2	show	can	she	them = they					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient more=Topic

Option 3

She should be twice as naughty to prove Nan right

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	6 naughty	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 naughty	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 naughty	cop
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 naughty	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 naughty	advmod
6	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 prove	mark
8	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 naughty	advcl
9	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 prove	obj
10	right	right	ADV	_	8 prove	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	She					naughty, twice property	tree rules
2	prove	to-infinitive	She not said here	Nan				right property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nan=Theme

Option 4

She should never speak to Nan again

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 speak	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 speak	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 speak	advmod
4	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Nan	case
6	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 speak	obl
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 speak	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	should	She		Nan		again		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to nan=Co-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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