Test 10 · Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher

An interviewer asks "What are you good at?" Which answer sounds most confident?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: interviewer, you, answer · What happens: ask, be, sound · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 16 «Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher» 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: An interviewer asks "What are you good at?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 interviewer	det
2	interviewer	interviewer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 good	punct
5	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 good	obl
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 good	cop
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 good	nsubj
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 asks	ccomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	8 good	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 good	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 good	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	a interviewer						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	you					good property	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: Which answer sounds most confident?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 answer	det
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sounds	nsubj
3	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 confident	advmod
5	confident	confident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sounds	xcomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sounds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	which answer					confident property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

I don't know, maybe everything, or maybe nothing.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 everything	punct
6	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	7 everything	advmod
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 know	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nothing	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nothing	cc
10	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	11 nothing	advmod
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 everything	appos
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	I	everything					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

I'm good at organising; I ran the school fair.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 good	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 good	cop
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	at	at	SCONJ	_	5 organising	mark
5	organising	organise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 good	advcl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 ran	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 ran	nsubj
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 good	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fair	det
10	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fair	compound
11	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ran	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 good	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		good property	tree rules
2	organise	gerund	I not said here			tree rules
3	run	past	I	the school fair		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fair=Trajectory

Option 3

Like, um, yeah, I'm like good at loads of stuff, innit.

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	INTJ	_	3 um	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	punct
3	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 good	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 um	punct
5	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	10 good	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 good	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 good	nsubj
8	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 good	cop
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 good	case
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 loads	case
12	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 good	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 stuff	case
14	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 loads	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 innit	punct
16	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 good	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 good	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	um			loads of stuff		good property	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive	um not said here						tree rules

Option 4

Stuff, really, all kinds of stuff, you know, things.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kinds	punct
3	really	really	ADV	_	6 kinds	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 really	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 kinds	det
6	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Stuff	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 stuff	case
8	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kinds	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Stuff	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 things	punct
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 know	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Stuff	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	you	things					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

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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