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Test 3 · ★ · Punctuation that changes meaning

What would happen if a recipe had no punctuation? "Add salt pepper the onion stir"

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: recipe, you · What happens: happen, have, add · To what, where: punctuation, salt pepper

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 14 «Punctuation that changes meaning» 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: What would happen if a recipe had no punctuation? "

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 recipe	det
6	recipe	recipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 punctuation	det
9	punctuation	punctuation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a recipe	no punctuation					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punctuation=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: Add salt pepper the onion stir"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pepper	compound
3	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Add	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stir	det
5	onion	onion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stir	compound
6	stir	stir	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Add	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Add	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	salt pepper					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

You might not know where steps end or what is listed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 end	advmod
6	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 end	nsubj
7	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	ccomp
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 end	conj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 listed	aux:pass
11	listed	list	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	might	You						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	end	present	steps						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	list	present · passive							tree rules

Option 2

The cake would bake faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cake	det
2	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bake	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bake	aux
4	bake	bake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 bake	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bake	would	the cake					fast property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, because recipes never need any punctuation at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 need	mark
4	recipes	recipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 need	advmod
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	advcl
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 punctuation	det
8	punctuation	punctuation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 need	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present	recipes	any punctuation		all			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot punctuation=Theme

Option 4

It would become a poem

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 poem	det
5	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	It	a poem					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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