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Test 8 · The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad

Tommy's mate: «your grandad's singin' old songs in that rust bucket, cringe». What did Tommy do that we can learn from?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: singin, Tommy, we · What happens: song, do, learn · To what, where: rust bucket

This is test 8 of lesson 512 «The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad» 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: Tommy's mate: «your grandad's singin' old songs in that rust bucket, cringe».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tommy	Tommy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Tommy	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 songs	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 singin	punct
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 grandad	nmod:poss
7	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 singin	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 grandad	case
9	singin	singin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 songs	nsubj
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 singin	punct
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 songs	amod
12	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mate	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 bucket	case
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 bucket	det
15	rust	rust	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bucket	compound
16	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 songs	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cringe	punct
18	cringe	cringe	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 songs	appos
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 cringe	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	song in a quote		your grandad's singin			that rust bucket			tree rules

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 did Tommy do that we can learn from?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	Tommy	Tommy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 learn	mark
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 learn	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 learn	aux
8	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 do	advcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	8 learn	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Tommy						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	learn	can	we						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Never let his grandad drive him again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 let	advmod
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 grandad	nmod:poss
4	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	obj
5	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drive	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 drive	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let	imperative	you not said here	his grandad					tree rules
2	drive	infinitive	his grandad not said here	him = he			again		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Joined in and stopped being embarrassed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stopped	advcl
2	in	in	ADP	_	1 Joined	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 stopped	cc
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 embarrassed	cop
6	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stopped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join in	participle							vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	stop	past							vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is	gerund						embarrassed property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Laughed at his own grandad with them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 grandad	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 grandad	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grandad	amod
5	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Laughed	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past						at his own grandad; with them = they	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Told his grandad to leave him at the gates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 grandad	nmod:poss
3	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Told	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 leave	mark
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Told	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 leave	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 gates	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gates	det
9	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past			his grandad				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent grandad=Recipient clause=Topic
2	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive		him = he		the gates			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme at gate=Location

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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