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Test 11 · ★★ · Grammar puzzles, part one

Your mate says "'The complex houses married and single soldiers' is nonsense." (Here a complex is a group of buildings.) What is the verb?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, single soldiers, complex, verb · What happens: say, marry, be · To what, where: complex houses, nonsense, group · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ 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 says "'The complex houses married and single soldiers' is nonsense."

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 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 married	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 married	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 houses	det
7	complex	complex	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 houses	compound
8	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 married	nsubj:pass
9	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 says	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 nonsense	cc
11	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 soldiers	amod
12	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 nonsense	nsubj
13	'	's	PART	_	12 soldiers	case
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 nonsense	cop
15	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 married	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	marry in a quote	participle · passive		the complex houses					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is a in a quote	present	single soldiers	nonsense					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: (Here a complex is a group of buildings.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 complex	det
4	complex	complex	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 group	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 group	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 group	det
7	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Here	parataxis
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 buildings	case
9	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 group	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct

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

Sentence 3: What is the verb?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 verb	det
4	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

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

houses, meaning gives homes to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gives	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 meaning	punct
3	meaning	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 houses	acl
4	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gives	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	4 gives	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	gerund	houses not said here						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	give	present	houses	homes					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme

Option 2

complex

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	complex	complex	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

soldiers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

married

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	participle							vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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