Test 2 · ★★ · Accents and dialects around the world
An Aussie mate texts "beach this arvo, bring ya togs, it'll be heaps good." ("Heaps" means very or lots.) When and what to bring?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Aussie mate texts, Heaps · What happens: bring, be, mean · To what, where: ya togs, heaps, lots
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Accents and dialects around the world» 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 Aussie mate texts "beach this arvo, bring ya togs, it'll be heaps good."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 texts | det |
| 2 | Aussie | aussie | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 texts | amod |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 texts | compound |
| 4 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 heaps | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 arvo | punct |
| 6 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arvo | compound |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 arvo | det |
| 8 | arvo | arvo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 texts | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 arvo | appos |
| 11 | ya | ya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 togs | compound |
| 12 | togs | tog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bring | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 texts | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 heaps | nsubj |
| 15 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 heaps | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 heaps | cop |
| 17 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 heaps | amod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 heaps | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 heaps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | infinitive | ya togs | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tog=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | future | a Aussie mate texts and this beach arvo | heaps | 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: ("Heaps" means very or lots.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Heaps | punct |
| 3 | Heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Heaps | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 lots | advmod |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 lots | cc |
| 8 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 means | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Heaps | lots | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic |
Sentence 3: When and what to bring?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 bring | mark |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bring | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 bring | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 bring | mark |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 bring | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | to-infinitive | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Tonight, a big woolly jumper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 jumper | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 jumper | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 jumper | amod |
| 5 | woolly | woolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 jumper | amod |
| 6 | jumper | jumper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tonight | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
This evening, some sandwiches
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 evening | det |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sandwiches | punct |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 sandwiches | det |
| 5 | sandwiches | sandwich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 evening | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
This afternoon, a swimsuit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 afternoon | det |
| 2 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 swimsuit | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 swimsuit | det |
| 5 | swimsuit | swimsuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 afternoon | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Tomorrow morning, some sun cream
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 morning | compound |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cream | punct |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 cream | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cream | compound |
| 6 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 morning | 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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