Test 11 · ★ · Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away
Mihi meets a cousin she's never seen: «Kia ora, cuz!» What's she saying?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mihi · What happens: meet, not see, say · To what, where: cousin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 510 «Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away» 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: Mihi meets a cousin she's never seen: «Kia ora, cuz!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mihi | Mihi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 meets | nsubj |
| 2 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cousin | det |
| 4 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 meets | obj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seen | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 seen | advmod |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 cousin | acl:relcl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Kia | punct |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 Kia | punct |
| 11 | Kia | Kia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 meets | parataxis |
| 12 | ora | ora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Kia | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cuz | punct |
| 14 | cuz | cuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Kia | appos |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 cuz | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 meets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | present | Mihi | a cousin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not see | present · passive | Mihi | a cousin not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cousin=Stimulus |
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 she saying?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 saying | obj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 saying | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saying | nsubj |
| 4 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 saying | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · progressive | Mihi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Hello, cousin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hello | hello | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cousin | punct |
| 3 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hello | vocative |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Goodbye, cousin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goodbye | goodbye | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cousin | punct |
| 3 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Goodbye | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Go away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | imperative | you not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Who are you?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Who | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Who | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Who | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | 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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