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Test 2 · ★★★ · Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese

A Geordie nan says "Get the bairns their tea, pet." ("Pet" is a friendly word like love; "tea" here is the evening meal.) Who gets fed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Geordie nan, Pet, tea · What happens: say, get, be, feed · To what, where: bairns, friendly word, evening meal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese» of the language 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 Geordie nan says "Get the bairns their tea, pet."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 nan	det
2	Geordie	Geordie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 nan	compound
3	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Get	punct
6	Get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bairns	det
8	bairns	bairn	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Get	obj
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tea	nmod:poss
10	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Get	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pet	punct
12	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Get	vocative
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Get	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a Geordie nan						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get in a quote	infinitive		the bairns				pet vocative	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent bairn=Beneficiary tea=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: ("Pet" is a friendly word like love; "tea" here is the evening meal.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	8 word	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Pet	punct
3	Pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 word	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Pet	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 word	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
7	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 word	amod
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 love	case
10	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 word	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 meal	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 tea	punct
13	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 meal	nsubj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 tea	punct
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 tea	advmod
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 meal	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 meal	det
18	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 meal	compound
19	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 word	appos
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 meal	punct
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	19 meal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Pet	a friendly word				like love	tree rules
2	is a	present	tea	the evening meal					tree rules

Sentence 3: Who gets fed?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 fed	nsubj:pass
2	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fed	aux:pass
3	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present · passive							vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The baby animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 animals	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 animals	compound
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The neighbours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 neighbours	det
2	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The pets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pets	det
2	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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