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Test 5 · ★★ · The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other an…

«Grandma says boys need more meat cos they're growing, girls don't». What's right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandma, boys, girls · What happens: say, need, grow, not do, be · To what, where: more meat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ 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: «Grandma says boys need more meat cos they're growing, girls don't».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
2	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	nsubj
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 meat	amod
7	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obj
8	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	11 growing	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 growing	nsubj
10	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 growing	aux
11	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 need	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 do	punct
13	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 do	nsubj
14	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 do	advmod
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 do	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Grandma						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	need in a quote	present	boys	more meat					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot meat=Theme
3	grow in a quote	present · progressive	boys = boy						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not do in a quote	present	girls						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only boys grow at Nkechi's age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 boys	advmod
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 age	case
5	Nkechi	Nkechi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 age	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Nkechi	case
7	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	boys				at Nkechi's age		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at age=Location

Option 2

Meat is bad for girls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bad	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bad	cop
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 girls	case
5	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Meat					for girls; bad property	tree rules

Option 3

Grandma is right, girls eat less

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct
5	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	nsubj
6	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
7	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Grandma					right property	tree rules
2	eat	present	girls					less property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Girls are growing too; it's unfair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 growing	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 growing	aux
3	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	3 growing	advmod
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 growing	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 unfair	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 unfair	cop
8	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 growing	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present · progressive	Girls						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	it					unfair 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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