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Test 9 · Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas

An American gran says "Your family are lovely" sounds weird. Is the British version wrong?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: American gran, family, lovely · What happens: say, be, sound · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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: An American gran says "Your family are lovely" sounds weird.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 gran	det
2	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gran	amod
3	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 lovely	punct
6	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 family	nmod:poss
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lovely	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lovely	cop
9	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sounds	nsubj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 lovely	punct
11	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
12	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sounds	xcomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a American gran						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	Your family					lovely property	tree rules
3	sound	present	lovely					weird property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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: Is the British version wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wrong	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 version	det
3	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 version	amod
4	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrong	obl:unmarked
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						the British version obl:unmarked; wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Yes, family can never take "are"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 take	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 take	advmod
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 take	cop
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	can	family					take property	tree rules

Option 2

No, but only in poems

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 poems	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 poems	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 poems	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 poems	case
6	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, both forms are correct in their own country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 correct	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 forms	det
4	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 correct	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 correct	cop
6	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 country	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 country	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 country	amod
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 correct	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	both forms			forms's own country		correct property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, British English is always wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 wrong	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 English	amod
4	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wrong	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wrong	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 wrong	advmod
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	British English					always, wrong property	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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