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Test 1 · Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas

Your mate goes "fear isn't a noun bro, you can't pick it up." What's the best reply?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, fear, you, best reply · What happens: go, not be, not pick up, be · To what, where: noun bro, fear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 2 «Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas» 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: Your mate goes "fear isn't a noun bro, you can't pick it up."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 bro	punct
5	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bro	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bro	cop
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 bro	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bro	det
9	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bro	compound
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	vocative
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pick	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 pick	nsubj
13	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 pick	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 pick	advmod
15	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 goes	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pick	obj
17	up	up	ADP	_	15 pick	compound:prt
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Your mate						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not is a in a quote	present	fear	a noun bro					tree rules
3	not pick up in a quote	can	you	fear					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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 best reply?

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	5 reply	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 reply	amod
5	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Fear is only a verb, like "I fear"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 verb	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 verb	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 verb	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 verb	det
5	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fear	punct
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 fear	mark
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 fear	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 fear	nsubj
10	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 verb	parataxis
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 fear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Fear	a verb					tree rules
2	fear in a quote	present	I						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

He's right, nouns must be solid things you can pick up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 things	punct
5	nouns	noun	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 things	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 things	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 things	cop
8	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 right	obl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 pick	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 pick	aux
12	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 things	acl:relcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 pick	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	is a	must	nouns	solid things					tree rules
3	pick up	can	you	solid things not said here					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It names a feeling, so it is an abstract noun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 names	nsubj
2	names	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 feeling	det
4	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 names	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 noun	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	11 noun	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 noun	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 noun	cop
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 noun	det
10	abstract	abstract	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 noun	amod
11	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 names	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	present	It	a feeling					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme
2	is a	present	feeling	a abstract noun					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Fear is a proper noun with a capital F

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 noun	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 noun	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 noun	det
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 noun	amod
5	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 F	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 F	det
8	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 F	compound
9	F	f	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 noun	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Fear	a proper noun				with a capital F	tree rules

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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