Test 3 · ★★★ · Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody expla…
«Howay man, ye'll dance or ye'll get nae cake!» Uncle Gaz is laughing. Is it a real threat?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Howay man, ye, Gaz, cake · What happens: dance, get, laugh, be · To what, where: nae cake, real threat
This is test 3 · ★★★ 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: «Howay man, ye'll dance or ye'll get nae cake!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 dance | punct |
| 2 | Howay | Howay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 man | compound |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dance | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 5 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 dance | nsubj |
| 6 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 dance | aux |
| 7 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 get | cc |
| 9 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 get | nsubj |
| 10 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dance | conj |
| 12 | nae | nae | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cake | amod |
| 13 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 dance | punct |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 dance | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance in a quote | future | Howay man | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | future | ye | nae cake | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cake=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: Uncle Gaz is laughing.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Gaz | Gaz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 laughing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughing | aux |
| 4 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Uncle | conj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Uncle | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present · progressive | Gaz | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: Is it a real threat?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 threat | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 threat | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 threat | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 threat | amod |
| 5 | threat | threat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 threat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | cake | a real threat | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
No, he's angry with her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 angry | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 angry | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | with her = she; angry property | tree rules |
Option 2
Yes, she'll really get no cake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 get | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 4 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 cake | det |
| 8 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | future | she | no cake | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cake=Stimulus |
Option 3
Yes, she'd better hide
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 'd | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 'd | nsubj |
| 4 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 hide | amod |
| 6 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 'd | obj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
No, it's a joke to get her up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 joke | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 joke | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 joke | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 joke | det |
| 6 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 joke | acl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 get | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 get | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a joke | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get up | to-infinitive | her = she | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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