Test 10 · ★★★ · Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody expla…

Kwesi's mate: «why's your uncle wearing a curtain lol». What's a good answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: uncle · What happens: be, wear · To what, where: uncle, curtain, good answer

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 511 «Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains» 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: Kwesi's mate: «why's your uncle wearing a curtain lol».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kwesi	Kwesi	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kwesi	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 uncle	punct
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 uncle	advmod
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 uncle	cop
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 uncle	nmod:poss
9	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mate	conj
10	wearing	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 uncle	acl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 curtain	det
12	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wearing	obj
13	lol	lol	INTJ	_	9 uncle	discourse
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 uncle	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		your uncle					tree rules
2	wear in a quote	gerund	your uncle not said here	a curtain					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent curtain=Source

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 good answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 answer	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

«It's kente, from Ghana, and it's well nice»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 kente	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kente	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kente	cop
4	kente	kente	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Ghana	punct
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 Ghana	case
7	Ghana	Ghana	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kente	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nice	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 nice	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 nice	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 nice	cop
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 nice	advmod
13	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kente	parataxis
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 nice	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	It	kente					tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	kente					nice, well property	tree rules

Option 2

«Shut up or I'll sort you out»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Shut	punct
2	Shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 Shut	compound:prt
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 sort	cc
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 sort	nsubj
6	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 sort	aux
7	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Shut	conj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 sort	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	7 sort	compound:prt
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut up in a quote	imperative	you not said here						vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sort out in a quote	future	I	you					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 3

«I dunno, he's dead weird, just ignore him, mate»

The tree, 10 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 dunno	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 dunno	nsubj
3	dunno	dunno	INTJ	_	8 weird	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dunno	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 weird	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 weird	cop
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 weird	advmod
8	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ignore	punct
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 ignore	advmod
11	ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 weird	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ignore	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mate	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ignore	vocative
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 ignore	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	he					weird property	tree rules
2	ignore in a quote	infinitive		him = he				mate vocative	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

«He lost his suitcase at the airport»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 suitcase	nmod:poss
5	suitcase	suitcase	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 airport	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 airport	det
8	airport	airport	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose in a quote	past	He	his suitcase		the airport			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suitcase=Eventuality

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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