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Test 6 · ★★ · Accents and dialects around the world

A Singapore uncle asks "Tomorrow can come or not?" What is he asking?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Singapore uncle, Tomorrow, uncle · What happens: ask, come · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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 Singapore uncle asks "Tomorrow can come or not?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 uncle	det
2	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 uncle	compound
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	nsubj
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
6	Tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asks	ccomp
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 not	cc
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 come	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	a Singapore uncle						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come in a quote	can	Tomorrow						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 is he asking?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 asking	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asking	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asking	nsubj
4	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 asking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present · progressive	uncle						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Can tomorrow be cancelled?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cancelled	aux
2	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cancelled	nsubj:pass
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 cancelled	aux:pass
4	cancelled	cancel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cancelled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cancel	can · passive		tomorrow					tree rules

Option 2

Is it tomorrow or not?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Is	nsubj
3	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Is	nsubj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 not	cc
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 tomorrow	conj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Is	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	it						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Did you come yesterday?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · do-support	you						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Can you come tomorrow?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl:unmarked
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	can	you				tomorrow		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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