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Test 5 · Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher

A Welsh lad says "Mam's tamping, I'm off home now in a minute." ("Mam" is mum.) How does his mum feel?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Welsh lad, Mam, mum · What happens: say, be, feel · To what, where: tamping, mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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: A Welsh lad says "Mam's tamping, I'm off home now in a minute."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lad	det
2	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lad	amod
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 tamping	punct
6	Mam	Mam	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tamping	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Mam	case
8	tamping	tamping	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 off	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 off	nsubj
11	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 off	cop
12	off	off	ADV	_	8 tamping	conj
13	home	home	ADV	_	12 off	advmod
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 off	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 minute	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 minute	det
17	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 off	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tamping	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 tamping	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a Welsh lad	Mam's tamping					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tamping=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	a Welsh lad = lad				now; minute	home, off 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: ("Mam" is mum.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 mum	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Mam	punct
3	Mam	Mam	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mum	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Mam	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mum	cop
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 mum	punct
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 mum	punct

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

Sentence 3: How does his mum feel?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 feel	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 feel	aux
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feel	nsubj
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present · do-support	Mam's mum						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Very happy and calm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 happy	advmod
2	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 calm	cc
4	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 happy	conj

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

Option 2

Very sleepy and tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 sleepy	advmod
2	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tired	cc
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sleepy	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Very cross and annoyed with him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 cross	advmod
2	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 annoyed	cc
4	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cross	conj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cross	obl

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

Option 4

Very hungry and thirsty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 hungry	advmod
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 thirsty	cc
4	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hungry	conj

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

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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