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Test 1 · ★★ · Grammar puzzles, part one

Your mate goes "easy, there's four nouns in 'the dog chased the cat into the garden', 'cos 'chased' is a thing." What's wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, four nouns, dog, garden · What happens: go, be, chase · To what, where: cat, cos, thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 11 «Grammar puzzles, part one» 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: Your mate goes "easy, there's four nouns in 'the dog chased the cat into the garden', 'cos 'chased' is a thing."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 easy	punct
5	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goes	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 's	punct
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 's	expl
8	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 goes	parataxis
9	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 nouns	nummod
10	nouns	noun	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 's	nsubj
11	in	in	SCONJ	_	15 chased	mark
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 chased	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dog	det
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 chased	nsubj
15	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 's	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cat	det
17	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 chased	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 garden	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 garden	det
20	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 thing	nsubj
21	',	',	PART	_	20 garden	dep
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 cos	punct
23	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 thing	nsubj
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 cos	punct
25	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 cos	acl
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 chased	punct
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 thing	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 thing	det
29	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 chased	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Your mate					easy property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	does in a quote	present	four nouns			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	chase in a quote	past	the dog	the cat					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme
4	chase in a quote	participle		cos not said here					vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present	the garden	a thing					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's wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

There are 2 nouns, garden is a place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 nouns	nummod
4	nouns	noun	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 place	punct
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 place	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 place	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 place	det
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nouns	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	2 nouns and a place			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	garden	a place					tree rules

Option 2

There are 5 nouns, 'into' is one too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 one	cop
3	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 nouns	nummod
4	nouns	noun	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 into	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 into	punct
7	into	into	ADP	_	4 nouns	nmod
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 into	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 one	cop
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
11	too	too	ADV	_	10 one	advmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Chased is a verb; there are 3 nouns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Chased	aux:pass
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 verb	det
4	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 are	punct
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 are	expl
7	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Chased	parataxis
8	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 nouns	nummod
9	nouns	noun	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 are	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	present · passive							vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»
2	does	present	3 nouns			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nothing, there are 4 nouns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 are	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 are	expl
4	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 nouns	nummod
6	nouns	noun	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 are	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	4 nouns			there		Nothing vocative	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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