Test 5 · ★★ · Accents and dialects around the world
A Kiwi says "Yeah nah, sweet as, chur." What's the mood?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kiwi, mood · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★★ 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: A Kiwi says "Yeah nah, sweet as, chur."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Kiwi | det |
| 2 | Kiwi | Kiwi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 nah | punct |
| 5 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 nah | discourse |
| 6 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 sweet | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sweet | punct |
| 8 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 says | ccomp |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 chur | case |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 chur | punct |
| 11 | chur | chur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sweet | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sweet | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sweet | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a Kiwi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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: What's the mood?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mood | det |
| 4 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the mood | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Angry and upset about something that happened
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 upset | cc |
| 3 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Angry | conj |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 something | case |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Angry | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 something | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Confused and asking for help
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 asking | cc |
| 3 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Confused | conj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 help | case |
| 5 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Sad and about to cry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 about | cc |
| 3 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Sad | conj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 cry | mark |
| 5 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 about | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Friendly and relaxed: no worries, thanks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 worries | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 relaxed | cc |
| 3 | relaxed | relaxed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Friendly | conj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 worries | punct |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 worries | det |
| 6 | worries | worry | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thanks | punct |
| 8 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 worries | 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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