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Test 1 · British and American words

Your mate goes "soccer is a dumb American word, innit, it's FOOTBALL bruv." What's true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, soccer · What happens: go, be · To what, where: dumb American word, FOOTBALL bruv

This is test 1 of lesson 21 «British and American words» 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 "soccer is a dumb American word, innit, it's FOOTBALL bruv."

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 word	punct
5	soccer	soccer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 word	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 word	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 word	det
8	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 word	amod
9	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 word	amod
10	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bruv	punct
12	innit	innit	INTJ	_	17 bruv	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bruv	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 bruv	cop
16	FOOTBALL	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bruv	compound
17	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 word	appos
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 bruv	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 bruv	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Your mate						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	soccer	a dumb American word					tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	soccer	FOOTBALL bruv					tree rules

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 true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

"Soccer" comes from the French word for sock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Soccer	punct
2	Soccer	soccer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Soccer	punct
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 word	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 word	det
7	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 word	amod
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 sock	case
10	sock	sock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Soccer			the French word for sock			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from word=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

"Soccer" was made up in England in the 1800s

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Soccer	punct
2	Soccer	soccer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj:pass
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Soccer	punct
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 made	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 England	case
8	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 1800s	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 1800s	det
11	1800s	1800	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	5 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past · passive		Soccer		England		in the 1800s	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot

Option 3

It was invented by a TV advert

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	3 invented	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 invented	aux:pass
3	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 advert	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 advert	det
6	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 advert	compound
7	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 invented	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past · passive	a TV advert	It					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result

Option 4

He's right, Americans invented it last year

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	_	6 invented	punct
5	Americans	American	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 invented	nsubj
6	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 right	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 invented	obj
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 year	amod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 invented	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	invent	past	Americans	it			year		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result

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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