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Test 10 · ★★★ · Is there one proper English? The big arguments

Puzzle: "I never said nothing to nobody." How many negative words are in it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, many negative words · What happens: not say, be · To what, where: nothing, nobody, Puzzle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 20 «Is there one proper English? The big arguments» 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: Puzzle: "I never said nothing to nobody."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Puzzle	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 said	advmod
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 said	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 nobody	case
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 nothing	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert in a quote	past	I	nothing	nobody				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic to nobody=Recipient

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: How many negative words are in it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 words	amod
3	negative	negative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 words	amod
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 it	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 it	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 it	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	many negative words			Puzzle			tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

One: never

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 never	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	1 One	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Three: never, nothing, nobody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 nothing	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 nothing	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 nothing	punct
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Three	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nobody	punct
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 nothing	conj

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

Option 3

Two: never and nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 never	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	1 Two	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 nothing	cc
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Two	conj

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

Option 4

Four: I, never, nothing, nobody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 I	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Four	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nothing	punct
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 nothing	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nothing	punct
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Four	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nobody	punct
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 nothing	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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