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Test 3 · ★★ · Grammar puzzles, part one

A teacher asks "Turn 'The dog has eaten' into a question." Which is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: teacher · What happens: ask, turn, eat, be · To what, where: dog, question · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ 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: A teacher asks "Turn 'The dog has eaten' into a question."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Turn	punct
5	Turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asks	xcomp
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 Turn	punct
7	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dog	det
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eaten	nsubj:pass
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 eaten	aux
10	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 Turn	advcl
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 eaten	punct
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 question	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 question	det
14	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eaten	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	a teacher						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	turn not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	a teacher not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	eat in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the dog		a question			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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: Which is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Does the dog has eaten?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eaten	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eaten	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eaten	aux
5	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 eaten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present · perfect · passive · do-support		the dog					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Has the dog eaten?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	nsubj
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 eaten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present · perfect	the dog						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The dog eaten has it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
3	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 dog	acl
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	participle		the dog not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	the dog	it					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

Is the dog has eaten?

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 eaten	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eaten	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eaten	aux
5	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 eaten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect · passive		the dog				eat property	tree rules

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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