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Test 8 · ★★ · The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other an…

A lad laughs: «your trousers are bare long, bruv, did ya nick 'em off your dad?» What's the best reply?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lad, trousers, ya, best reply · What happens: laugh, be, nick off · To what, where: 'em · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: A lad laughs: «your trousers are bare long, bruv, did ya nick 'em off your dad?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughs	nsubj
3	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 long	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 long	punct
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 trousers	nmod:poss
7	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 long	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 long	cop
9	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 long	amod
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 laughs	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bruv	punct
12	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 long	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 nick	punct
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 nick	aux
15	ya	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 nick	nsubj
16	nick	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 long	conj
17	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 nick	obj
18	off	off	ADP	_	16 nick	compound:prt
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 dad	nmod:poss
20	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 nick	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 long	punct
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 laughs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	a lad						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	your trousers					long property	tree rules
3	nick off in a quote	past · do-support	ya	'em = they					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary dad=Theme

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 the best reply?

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reply	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 reply	amod
5	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best reply						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Cry and go home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 go	cc
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Cry	conj
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	imperative	you not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	infinitive	you not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Punch him in the arm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Punch	punch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Punch	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 arm	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 arm	det
5	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Punch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punch	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the arm			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in arm=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Never wear trousers again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 wear	advmod
2	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wear	obj
4	again	again	ADV	_	2 wear	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wear	imperative	you not said here	trousers			again		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent trousers=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A grin: «Room to grow, innit»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 grin	det
2	grin	grin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 Room	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 Room	punct
5	Room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grin	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 grow	mark
7	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 Room	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 grow	conj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 grin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow in a quote	to-infinitive							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	innit in a quote	infinitive							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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